noun
tod
tod
noun
1
A male fox, or a fox generally, in older or dialect English.
"The farmer spotted a tod slinking near the henhouse."
2
An old English unit of weight for wool, equal to 28 pounds.
"The wool merchant weighed the fleece in tods."
How to Use Tod
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn old-fashioned word for a fox, also historically a wool-weighing unit.
Word Forms
todded past tense, tods plural, tods plural, tods singular
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Etymology
From Middle English tod, of unknown origin, possibly connected to a separate old word for a bushy clump such as ivy, referencing the fox's bushy tail.