TOD
WordNet

adjective


(1)   Alone and on your own
"Don't just sit there on your tod"

noun


(2)   A unit of weight for wool equal to about 28 pounds
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Noun


tod
  1. An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
    • Quotations
      1843: 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. — The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 27, p. 202.
      1882: Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 209.
  2. a fox, by extension, a crafty person.


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