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tod

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Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

todn. [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.].
  •  A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]
    "The ivy tod is heavy with snow."  [1913 Webster]
  •  An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail.  [1913 Webster]
    "The wolf, the tod, the brock."  [1913 Webster]
Tod stove, a close stove adapted for burning small round wood, twigs, etc. [U. S.] Knight.
todv. t. & i. 
     To weigh; to yield in tods.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tod, n. Brit. sl.

Idiom
on one's tod alone; on one's own.
Etymology
20th c.: perh. f. rhyming sl. on one's Tod Sloan (name of a jockey)

ROGET THESAURUS

tod

Gravity

N gravity, gravitation, weight, heaviness, specific gravity, pondorosity, pressure, load, burden, burthen, ballast, counterpoise, lump of, mass of, weight of, lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion, weighing, ponderation, trutination, weights, avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight, grain, scruple, drachma, ounce, pound, lb, arroba, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod, gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram, nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram, balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam, weighbridge, spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance, postal scale, baby scale, statics, weighty, weighing, heavy as lead, ponderous, ponderable, lumpish, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome, cumbrous, unwieldy, massive, incumbent, superincumbent.


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