tod
see also: Tod, TOD
Pronunciation
Tod
Pronunciation Proper noun
TOD
Noun
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see also: Tod, TOD
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /tɒd/
tod (plural tods)
- (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!
- c. 1620-1625, Ben Jonson, Pan's Anniversary
- Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
tod (plural tods)
- 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.
- 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],
- 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.
- 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 27, p. 202 ↗:
tod (tods, present participle todding; past and past participle todded)
- (obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.
Tod
Pronunciation Proper noun
- (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.
- The Daily Mail article describes Joe Strachan:
- 2013, Jessica Fanzo, Danny Hunter, Teresa Borelli, Diversifying Food and Diets
TOD
Noun
tod (plural tods)
- 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.”
- 2015, Katherine Pritchett, What the River Knows ↗
- (aviation) Initialism of top of descent
- A digital video format by JVC.
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