a unit of weight for wool equal to about 28 pounds
<noun.quantity> [ adj ]
alone and on your own
<adj.all> don't just sit there on your tod
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.
Tod \Tod\, v. t. & i. To weigh; to yield in tods. [Obs.]