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Webster 1913 Edition


Tod

Tod

(tŏd)
,
Noun.
[Akin to D.
todde
a rag, G.
zotte
shag, rag, a tuft of hair, Icel.
toddi
a piece of a thing, a tod of wool.]
1.
A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump.
[R.]
“An ivy todde.”
Spenser.
The ivy
tod
is heavy with snow.
Coleridge.
2.
An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds.
3.
A fox; – probably so named from its bushy tail.
The wolf, the
tod
, the brock.
B. Jonson.
Tod stove
,
a close stove adapted for burning small round wood, twigs, etc.
[U. S.]
Knight.

Tod

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
To weigh; to yield in tods.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Tod

TOD

, n.
1.
A bush; a thick shrub.
2.
A quantity of wool of twenty eight pounds, or two stone.
3.
A fox.

TOD

,
Verb.
T.
To weigh; to produce a tod. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


Tod

Tod

See also: tod and TOD

German

Alternative forms

Noun

Tod m (genitive Todes or Tods, plural Tode)

  1. death

Declension

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Derived terms

tod

tod

See also: Tod and TOD

English

Noun

tod (plural tods)

  1. (now Britain dialect) A fox.
    • Ben Jonson
      the wolf, the tod, the brock
    • Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
      Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
    1. A male fox; a dog; a reynard.
  2. Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
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Etymology 2

Apparently cognate with East Frisian todde (bundle), dialectal Swedish todd (mass (of wool)).

Noun

tod (plural tods)

  1. A bush; used especially of ivy.
  2. An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
    • 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 27, p. 202:
      Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 209:
      Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.

Verb

tod (third-person singular simple present tods, present participle todding, simple past and past participle todded)

  1. (obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.

Anagrams


Lojban

Rafsi

tod

  1. rafsi of toldi.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dauþuz, akin to Old Saxon dōth, Old Dutch dōth, dōt, Old English dēaþ, Old Norse dauði, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌿𐍃 (dauþus).

Noun

tōd m

  1. death, cessation of life

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Descendants


Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtòːt/, /ˈtóːt/
  • Tonal orthography: tọ́d, tọ̑d

Adverb

tód

  1. (clarification of this Slovene definition is being sought) thus