What is the difference between weigh and tod?
weigh | tod |
To determine the weight of an object.
Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
(figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
(intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
* Spenser
To consider a subject. (rfex)
To have a certain weight.
To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
* Cowper
* Shakespeare
To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
(nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
(nautical) To weigh anchor.
* 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 91:
*1841 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘A Descent into the Maelström’:
*:‘Here we used to remain until nearly time for slack-water again, when we weighed and made for home.’
To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
* Cowper
(obsolete) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
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.
In obsolete terms the difference between weigh and tod
is that weigh is to consider as worthy of notice; to regard while tod is to weigh; to yield in tods.As verbs the difference between weigh and tod
is that weigh is to determine the weight of an object while tod is to weigh; to yield in tods.As a noun tod is
a fox.weigh
English
Verb
(en verb)- He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client.
- You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
- could not weigh of worthiness aright
- I weigh ten and a half stone.
- They only weigh the heavier.
- Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff / Which weighs upon the heart.
- Your vows to her and me will even weigh .
- This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge.
- Towards the evening we wayed , and approaching the shoare [...], we landed where there lay a many of baskets and much bloud, but saw not a Salvage.
- Weigh the vessel up.
- I weigh not you.
- all that she so dear did weigh
Derived terms
* weigh down * weigh in/weigh-in * weight * weighty * weigh up * weigh ontod
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.