Category:Tod

Tod (tôd), n. Etym: [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 Tod, v. t. & i.

Defn: to weigh; to yield in tods. [obs.]