Tod

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /tÉ’d/
• Rhymes: -É’d
• Rhymes: -ɑːd

Origin unknown.

Full definition of tod

Noun

1. (now UK dialect) A fox.
• Ben Jonsonthe wolf, the tod, the brock
1. A male fox; a dog; a reynard.
2. Someone like a fox; a crafty person.

Related terms

• Todd
• todd

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

Noun

1. A bush; used especially of ivy.
• circa 1614 John Fletcher, , , Act 4, Scene 2, 1997, Lois Potter (editor), The Two Noble Kinsmen, page 277,His head's yellow,
  Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods,
  Not to undo with thunder.
• Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe ivy tod is heavy with snow.
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

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

Anagrams

• DOT, Dot, dot, DTO, ODT