See also: Tod
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
Origin unknown.
Noun
tod (plural tods)
- (deprecated template usage) ( UK dialect) A fox.
- Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
Related terms
Etymology 2
Apparently cognate with East Frisian (deprecated template usage) todde, dialectal Swedish (deprecated template usage) todd.
Noun
tod (plural tods)
- 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:
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Adverb
tod