dial. ? Obs. [f. TOD sb.2] intr. Of (so many) sheep or fleeces: To produce a tod of wool; to tod threes (etc.), to produce a tod from every three (etc.) sheep; hence, To obtain a tod of wool from a specified number of sheep. In quot. a. 1797 trans. (? erron.) to yield (so much wool).
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., IV. iii. 34. Let me see, euery eleuen [pr. Leauen-]weather toddes, euery tod yeeldes pound and odde shilling: fifteene hundred shorne, what comes the wooll too?
a. 1797. R. Farmer, Note (L.). Dealers in wool say, twenty sheep ought to tod fifty pounds of wool.
1799. A. Young, Agric. Lincoln., 311. Them sheap ’ll tod threes; that is, the fleeces of three of them will weigh a tod…. Of what was called Lincoln sheep, he todded all threes. Ibid., 327. His flock tods on an average half threes, half fours.
