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His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, / Not to undo with thunder.
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Marche. Aegloga Tertius.”, in The Shepheardes Calender:, London: Hugh Singleton,, →OCLC; reprinted as H Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender, London: John C. Nimmo,, 1890, →OCLC:
For birds in bushes tooting: At length within the Ivy tod
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, page 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, page 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 presenttods, present participletodding, simple past and past participletodded)
[…] ſobre tod eſto dare amoab en ur̃a mano e crebantaredes todas cibdades en caſtelladas entodos los arbores fermoſos todas las fontanas del agua cerraredes. entodas las buenas ſẽnas abatredes e fizieron aſſi.
“‘ And besides all this I will deliver Moab into your hands. And you will break every fortified city and every beautiful tree and every fountain of water you will stop up and every field you will ruin.’” And so they did.