Tod n.
1. A bush; a thick shrub; a bushy clump. [R.] “An ivy todde.”
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.]