Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tod \Tod\ (t[o^]d), n. [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.]
   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.

   {Tod stove}, a close stove adapted for burning small round
      wood, twigs, etc. [U. S.] --Knight.