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tod |
2 definitions found 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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