tod
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A male fox.
sostantivo
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A male fox.
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A fox in general.
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Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
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figuratoSomeone like a fox; a crafty person.
Etimologia
From Middle English tod, of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail.
sostantivo
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A bush, especially of ivy.
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.
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An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
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.
Etimologia
Late Middle English, of uncertain origin, but possibly from the same source as German Zotte (“clotted hair”), which see. Also cognate with Saterland Frisian todde (“bundle”), Swedish todd (“mass (of wool)”, dialectal).
verbo
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obsoletoTo weigh; to yield in tods.
Forme
- plurale
- tods
- passato
- todded
- participio passato
- todded
- participio presente
- todding
- 3ª persona singolare
- tods