Obs. rare. Forms: 1 þoden, 3 þode, þodde, 7 thode, (9 thod). [OE. þoden str. masc., ? f. stem þud- of OE. þyddan (:—*þudjan), pa. t. þudde, to strike, thrust, push, THUD.] A violent wind, a whirlwind. With quot. 1684 cf. THUD sb. 1.
c. 725. Corpus Gloss. (O. E. T.), 136. Alcanus [? Altanus], þoden.
c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xviii. 128. Sio ʓeornfulnes … ablent ðæs modes eaʓan … suæ suæ dust deð ðæs lichoman eaʓan on sumera mid ðodene [v.r. ðodne].
a. 1000. Ags. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 203/5. Ceruleis turbinibus, laʓeflodum þodenum.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gram., ix. (Z.), 37. Turbo, ðoden.
c. 1012. O. E. Chron., an. 793 (MS. D.). Her wæron reðe forebecna cumene ofer Norðanhymbra land…. þ[æt] wæron ormete þodenas & liʓrescas.
c. 1205. Lay., 27645. He þraste to þan fihte swa þode [c. 1275 þodde] doþ on felde.
1684. Bunyan, Seasonable Counsel, 206. Those thodes, gusts, blasts, or battering storms that beat against thy wall.
[1867. Smith, Sailor’s Word-bk., Thods, an old northern term for sudden gusts of wind.]
