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English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

Origin unknown.

Noun

tod (plural tods)

  1. (deprecated template usage) ( UK dialect) A fox.
  2. Someone like a fox; a crafty person.

Etymology 2

Apparently cognate with East Frisian (deprecated template usage) todde, dialectal Swedish (deprecated template usage) todd.

Noun

tod (plural tods)

  1. 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.

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Slovene

Adverb

tod

  1. thus