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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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