Tod vs Toed - What's the difference?
tod | toed |
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.
(chiefly, in combination) Having (a specified number or type of) toes.
(toe)
(construction) Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely; said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.
As a noun tod
is death.As an adjective toed is
(chiefly|in combination) having (a specified number or type of) toes or toed can be (construction) having the end secured by nails driven obliquely; said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.As a verb toed is
(toe).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.
Verb
(todd)Anagrams
* English terms with unknown etymologies ----toed
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)- narrow-toed
- a three-toed sloth
- He become more pigeon-toed with age.