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