tod

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a former British unit of weight for wool, usually equal to 28 pounds (about 12.7 kilograms)

   The account values each tod of wool at twenty-one shillings.

2. 2
   noun

   a male fox, or a fox generally; chiefly northern British and Scots

   At dusk, a tod crossed the moor below the farm.

A late Middle English word of uncertain origin. The wool-weight sense may be related to Germanic words for a tuft, bundle, or matted mass, such as German Zotte; the fox sense is chiefly northern English and Scots and may have a separate history.

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