ˈivy-ˈtod arch.
[See tod.]
= ivy-bush.
| 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. Mar. 67 At length within an Yuie todde..I heard a busie bustling. 1603 Drayton Heroic. Ep. xiii. 158 Roosted all day within an Ivy Tod. 1798 Coleridge Anc. Mar. vii. v, When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow. 1885 Tennyson Balin & Balan 330 The battlement over⁓topt with ivytods. |