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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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