tods

Noun (1)

tod (plural tods)

1. A male fox.

   Synonyms:

   dog-fox, reynard

2. (Scotland) A 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. (figuratively) Someone like a fox; a crafty person.

Noun (2)

tod (plural tods)

1. A bush, especially of ivy.
   • 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
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.1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 27, page 202

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