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