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TODS
Noun
TODs
plural of TOD
Anagrams
• DOTs, DTOs, dost, dots, stod, stød
Noun
tods
plural of tod
Anagrams
• DOTs, DTOs, dost, dots, stod, stød
Source: Wiktionary
TOD
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.]
TOD
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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