tod

plural tods

1. A male fox.

   Synonyms: dog-fox, reynard

2. ScotlandA fox in general.

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

   1977, Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs

3. figurativelySomeone like a fox; a crafty person.

plural tods

1. A bush, especially of ivy.

   The ivy tod is heavy with snow.

   1797–1798 (date written), [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], published 1798, →OCLC

   2 more examples

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

   1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv, page 2

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

   1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “March. Ægloga Tertia.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC

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

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

   1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 209

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   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.

   1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 27, page 202

present singular third person tods · participle present todding · participle past todded · past todded

1. obsoleteTo weigh; to yield in tods.

1. colloquialTodmorden.

   The Daily Mail article describes Joe Strachan: ...a wealthy U.S. former sales director who decided to settle in Tod with his Scottish wife, after many years in California.

   2014, Steve Hanson, Small Towns, Austere Times

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   The Todmorden News carried the comment endorsing that decision: 'This should now send Sainsbury's a clear signal, should they appeal, that they are not welcome in Tod. […]

   2013, Jessica Fanzo, Danny Hunter, Teresa Borelli, Diversifying Food and Diets

2. alternativeAlternative form of Todd.

plural TODs · alternative ToD · alternative T.O.D. · alternative T.o.D. · alternative T. O. D. · alternative T. o. D.

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of time of death.

   “Now maybe I can get the bodies to the morgue and determine TOD.”

   2015, Katherine Pritchett, What the River Knows

2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableaeronauticsInitialism of top of descent.
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebusinessInitialism of transfer on death (the account has a beneficiary).
4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegamblingInitialism of time-on-device.
5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableurban studiestransportInitialism of transit-oriented development.

alternative ToD · alternative T.O.D. · alternative T.o.D. · alternative T. O. D. · alternative T. o. D.

1. videoA digital video format by JVC.

plural ToDs

1. alternativeAlternative form of TOD.