tod

noun

1. A male fox.
2. (Scotland)A fox in general.

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

3. (figuratively)Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
4. A bush, especially of ivy.

   “His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, / Not to undo with thunder.”

   “For birds in bushes tooting: At length within the Ivy tod”

   “The ivy tod is heavy with snow.”

5. An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).

   “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.”

6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of time of death.

   ““Now maybe I can get the bodies to the morgue and determine TOD.””

7. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of top of descent.
8. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of transfer on death (the account has a beneficiary).
9. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of time-on-device.
10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of transit-oriented development.
11. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of TOD.

verb

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

name

1. (colloquial)Todmorden.

   “The Todmorden News carried the comment endorsing that decision: 'This should now send Sainsbury's a clear signal, should they appeal, that they are not welcome in Tod. […]”

   “The Daily Mail article describes Joe Strachan: ...a wealthy U.S. former sales director who decided to settle in Tod with his Scottish wife, after many years in California.”

2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Todd.
3. A digital video format by JVC.