Tod (t&ocr;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.

 

© Webster 1913.


Tod, v. t. & i.

To weigh; to yield in tods.

[Obs.]

 

© Webster 1913.