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Meaning of TOD

Pronunciation:  tâd

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  (British) a unit of weight for wool equal to about 28 pounds
  2. [adj]  (British) alone and on your own; "don't just sit there on your tod"
 
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 Synonyms: unaccompanied
 
 See Also: weight, weight unit

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Tod\ (t[o^]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.] ``An ivy
       todde.'' --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.
    
  2. \Tod\, v. t. & i.
    To weigh; to yield in tods. [Obs.]
    
 
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