tod

See also: Tod and TOD

English

Unknown; although possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail.[1]

tod (plural tods)

Apparently cognate with Saterland Frisian todde (“bundle”), Swedish todd (“mass (of wool)”, dialectal).

tod (plural tods)

A bush, especially of ivy.
- c. 1614, John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act 4, Scene 2, 1997, Lois Potter (editor), The Two Noble Kinsmen, page 277,
  His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, / Not to undo with thunder.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  The ivy tod is heavy with snow.
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.

tod (third-person singular simple present tods, present participle todding, simple past and past participle todded)

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