TOD

tod

(adjective) alone and on your own; “don’t just sit there on your tod”

tod

(noun) a unit of weight for wool equal to about 28 pounds

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

tod (plural tods)

(now UK dialect) A fox.

A male fox; a dog; a reynard.

Someone like a fox; a crafty person.

Etymology 2

Noun

tod (plural tods)

A bush, especially of ivy.

An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).

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

• DOT, DTO, Dot, ODT, OTD, do't, dot

Proper noun

Tod

(colloquial) Todmorden.

Anagrams

• DOT, DTO, Dot, ODT, OTD, do't, dot

Noun

TOD (plural TODs)

Initialism of time of death.

(aviation) Initialism of top of descent.

Proper noun

TOD

A digital video format by JVC.

Anagrams

• DOT, DTO, Dot, ODT, OTD, do't, dot

Source: Wiktionary


Tod (tĂ´d), 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, v. t. & i.

Definition: To weigh; to yield in tods. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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