Tod in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Tod

You can make 5 words from 'tod' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'tod'
• 2 letters words from 'tod'

3 letters words from 'tod'

DOT 4

TOD 4

2 letters words from 'tod'

DO 3	OD 3
TO 2

Definitions and meaning of tod

tod

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɒd/
• Rhymes: -ɒd
• Rhymes: -ɑːd

Etymology 1

From Middle English tod, of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail. Cognate with Scots tod.

Noun

tod (plural tods)

1. (now Britain dialect) A fox.
   • c. 1620-1625, Ben Jonson, Pan's Anniversary

     the wolf, the tod, the brock

   • 1977, Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs

     Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!

   1. A male fox; a dog; a reynard.
2. Someone like a fox; a crafty person.

Synonyms

• (male fox): dog-fox

Hypernyms

• (male fox): fox

Coordinate terms

• (male fox): vixen (“female fox”)

Related terms

• Todd
• todd

References

Etymology 2

Apparently cognate with Saterland Frisian todde (“bundle”), Swedish todd (“mass (of wool)”, dialectal).

Noun

tod (plural tods)

1. A bush, especially of ivy.
   • c. 1614, John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, 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.

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

     The ivy tod is heavy with snow.

2. 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

tod (third-person singular simple present tods, present participle todding, simple past and past participle todded)

1. (obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.

Anagrams

• DOT, DTO, Dot, ODT, OTD, do't, dot

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Old High German

Alternative forms

• dot, doth

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dauþuz, akin to Old Saxon dōth, Old Dutch dōth, dōt, Old English dēaþ, Old Norse dauði, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌿𐍃 (dauþus).

Noun

tōd m

1. death, cessation of life

Related terms

• tōt

Descendants

• Middle High German: tōt
  • Alemannic German:

    Swabian: Daod, Dod

  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Dod

  • German: Tod
  • Luxembourgish: Doud
  • Yiddish: טויט‎ (toyt)

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Old Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [toð]

Determiner

tod m or f sg

1. Apocopic form of todo or toda; all
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 42v.

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tòːt/, /tóːt/

Adverb

tọ̄d

1. (clarification of this definition is needed) thus

Further reading

• “tod”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Source: wiktionary.org

• TOC, telecommunications code for the letter T.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)