tod

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /tɒd/    美 /tɑd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A male fox.
  2. A bush, especially of ivy.
    — His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, / Not to undo with thunder.
  3. A fox in general. Scotland
    — Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
  4. 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.
  5. Someone like a fox; a crafty person. figuratively
动词 v.
  1. To weigh; to yield in tods. obsolete

词形变化

tods plural tods plural tods present,singular,third-person todding participle,present todded participle,past todded past

词汇关系

衍生词
tod and lambs Todhunter Todman
相关词
Todd

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tod, of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail.
词源 2
Late Middle English, of uncertain origin, but possibly from the same source as German Zotte (“clotted hair”), which see. Also cognate with Saterland Frisian todde (“bundle”), Swedish todd (“mass (of wool)”, dialectal).
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