What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Tod vs Tor - What's the difference?

tod | tor |

As a noun tod

is death.

As a verb tor is

(lb) to break.

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.
    • Related terms
    * *

    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.

    • Anagrams

    * English terms with unknown etymologies ----

    tor

    English

    (wikipedia tor)

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en-adjective)
  • ("hard, difficult; strong; rich").

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) tor, ). It is not clear whether the Celtic forms were borrowed from Old English or vice versa. See also (tower).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill.
  • (South-West England) A hill.
  • * 1855 , Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! , Tickor and Fields (1855), pages 104-105:
    • Bursdon and Welsford were then, as now, a rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree, or anything save few and far between a world-old furze-bank which marked the common rights of some distant cattle farm, and crossed then, not as now, by a decent road, but by a rough confused trackway, the remnant of an old Roman road from Clovelly dikes to Launceston.
  • * 1902 , , Chapter 9:
    • The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc.
  • * 2008 , Lydia Joyce, Shadows of the Night , Signet Eclipse (2008), ISBN 9780451223425, page 242:
    • She had slipped the letters into her pocket next to the packet of antique documents and had taken an umbrella—as the sky was ominous out over the distant tors —and strolled around the manor house and down the road toward the village.
  • (UK, dialect) A tower; a turret.
    • (Ray)

    Anagrams

    * ----