Tod vs Tody - What's the difference?
tod | tody |
A fox.
* Ben Jonson
* Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
# A male fox; a dog; a reynard.
Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
A bush; used especially of ivy .
* '', Act 4, Scene 2, 1997 , Lois Potter (editor), ''The Two Noble Kinsmen ,
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge
An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
* 1843 , The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , Volume 27,
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 209:
(obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.
As nouns the difference between tod and tody
is that tod is death while tody is any of the genus todus of small insectivorous caribbean birds.tod
English
Etymology 1
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)- the wolf, the tod , the brock
- Who am Ah? Ah'm tod , whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
Etymology 2
Apparently cognate with East Frisian .Noun
(en noun)page 277,
- His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods , / Not to undo with thunder.
- The ivy tod is heavy with snow.
p. 202:
- 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.