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tod | toed |

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)
  • A fox.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • the wolf, the tod , the brock
  • * Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
    • Who am Ah? Ah'm tod , whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
  • # A male fox; a dog; a reynard.
  • Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
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    Etymology 2

    Apparently cognate with East Frisian .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bush; used especially of ivy .
  • * '', Act 4, Scene 2, 1997 , Lois Potter (editor), ''The Two Noble Kinsmen , page 277,
    • His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods , / Not to undo with thunder.
  • * Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • The ivy tod is heavy with snow.
  • 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, 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.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 209:
    • 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)
  • (obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.

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    toed

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (chiefly, in combination) Having (a specified number or type of) toes.
    • narrow-toed
    a three-toed sloth
    He become more pigeon-toed with age.

    Etymology 2

    See (toe) (verb)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (toe)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (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.

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