tod Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a unit of weight for wool equal to about 28 pounds
  2. adjective satellite alone and on your own
    • don't just sit there on your tod

WordNet

Tod noun
Etymology
Akin to D. todde a rag, G. zotte shag, rag, a tuft of hair, Icel. toddi a piece of a thing, a tod of wool.
Definitions
  1. A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump. R. "An ivy todde." Spenser.
    The ivy tod is heavy with snow. Coleridge.
  2. An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds.
  3. A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail.
    The wolf, the tod, the brock. B. Jonson.
    Knight.
Tod transitive verb & intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To weigh; to yield in tods. Obs.

Webster 1913