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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.
Definition 2024
Tod
Tod
German
Alternative forms
- Todt (obsolete)
Noun
Tod m (genitive Todes or Tods, plural Tode)
Declension
Declension of Tod
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tod
tod
English
Noun
tod (plural tods)
- (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!
- Ben Jonson
- 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)
- A bush; used especially of ivy.
- c. 1614, John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, 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 Coleridge
- The ivy tod is heavy with snow.
- c. 1614, John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act 4, Scene 2, 1997, Lois Potter (editor), The Two Noble Kinsmen, page 277,
- 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.
- 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 27, p. 202:
Verb
tod (third-person singular simple present tods, present participle todding, simple past and past participle todded)
- (obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.
Anagrams
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
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Descendants
- German: Tod
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtòːt/, /ˈtóːt/
- Tonal orthography: tọ́d, tọ̑d
Adverb
tód
- (clarification of this Slovene definition is being sought) thus