tod

UK /tɒd/ US /tɑd/
noun 11name 3verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

A male fox.

2

A fox in general.

Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!

3

Someone like a fox; a crafty person.

noun

1

A bush, especially of ivy.

His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, / Not to undo with thunder.

For birds in bushes tooting: At length within the Ivy tod

2

An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).

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.

Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.

verb

1

To weigh; to yield in tods.

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