Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tod"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Tod \Tod\ (t[o^]d), n. [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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Tod \Tod\, v. t. & i.
To weigh; to yield in tods. [Obs.]


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