Meaning

A male fox..

Definitions by Sense

1. A male fox.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A fox in general.
3. (figuratively) Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
4. A bush, especially of ivy.
5. An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
6. (obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

The ivy tod is heavy with snow.

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.

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

Word Forms

• tods
• todding
• todded

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Use tod when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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