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English Dictionary: Tod. by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tod \Tod\ (t[ocr]d), n. [Akin to D. todde a rag, G. zotte shag,
      rag, a tuft of hair, Icel. toddi a piece of a thing, a tod of
      wool.]
      1. A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump. [R.] [bd]An ivy
            todde.[b8] --Spenser.
  
                     The ivy tod is heavy with snow.         --Coleridge.
  
      2. An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually
            twenty-eight pounds.
  
      3. A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail.
  
                     The wolf, the tod, the brock.            --B. Jonson.
  
      {Tod stove}, a close stove adapted for burning small round
            wood, twigs, etc. [U. S.] --Knight.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tod \Tod\, v. t. & i.
      To weigh; to yield in tods. [Obs.]
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