tod
see also: Tod, TOD
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /tɒd/
Noun

tod (plural tods)

  1. (now UK dialect) A fox.
    • c. 1620-1625, Ben Jonson, Pan's Anniversary
      the wolf, the tod, the brock
    • 1977, Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
      Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
    1. A male fox; a dog; a reynard.
  2. Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
Related terms Noun

tod (plural tods)

  1. A bush, especially of ivy.
    • circa 1614 John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act 4, Scene 2, 1997, Lois Potter (editor), The Two Noble Kinsmen, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5dTUPq4YAygC&pg=PA277&dq=%22Hard-haired,+and+curled,+thick+twined+like+ivy+tods%22+ivy+-intitle:%22koomkie%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PCn7Tp-0OY6OmQWF-OiDCA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Hard-haired%2C%20and%20curled%2C%20thick%20twined%20like%20ivy%20tods%22%20ivy%20-intitle%3A%22koomkie%22&f=false page 277],
      His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, / Not to undo with thunder.
    • The ivy tod is heavy with snow.
  2. An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
    • 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 27, p. 202 ↗:
      Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 209:
      Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.
Verb

tod (tods, present participle todding; past and past participle todded)

  1. (obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.

Tod
Pronunciation Proper noun
  1. (colloquial) Todmorden.
    • 2013, Jessica Fanzo, ‎Danny Hunter, ‎Teresa Borelli, Diversifying Food and Diets
      The Todmorden News carried the comment endorsing that decision: 'This should now send Sainsbury's a clear signal, should they appeal, that they are not welcome in Tod. […]
    • 2014, Steve Hanson, Small Towns, Austere Times
      The Daily Mail article describes Joe Strachan:
      ...a wealthy U.S. former sales director who decided to settle in Tod with his Scottish wife, after many years in California.

TOD
Noun

tod (plural tods)

  1. Initialism of time of death
    • 2015, Katherine Pritchett, What the River Knows ↗
      “Now maybe I can get the bodies to the morgue and determine TOD.”
  2. (aviation) Initialism of top of descent
Proper noun
  1. A digital video format by JVC.



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