podder

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One who collects pods or pulse.

   • And it is added, that it is frequently a practice with the large cultivators of early green pea crops, in the neighbourhood of London, to dispose of them, by the acre, to inferior persons, who procure the podders[…]
   • Many of the richer persons sell their Peas by the acre, to persons who employ the podders, and who gather by the sack of four bushels. About forty podders are set to ten acres.
2. 2

   Any of various devices for harvesting and/or removing the pods from peas, beans, or other…

   Any of various devices for harvesting and/or removing the pods from peas, beans, or other crops with pods.

   • When I had set the podder up, on the 4th of July, and gave it a trial on the morning of the 5th, Mr. Taylor remarked, " Well , I guess it is a go," and at noon three hundred people walked out of the factory, never to return, as I supposed.
3. 3

   A plant that produces pods, or the vegetable produced by such a plant.

   • It never became popular as a farmers' crop, because directly its pods filled out they became very pale in colour, a bad point with a podder.
   • It is too, cultivated as a podder crop in the beginning.
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   1. 4

      One who identifies the sex of hemp plants by their production of pods.

   2. 5

      One who was born in or lives in a pod.

      • Brrrtr had even sent Hrrryr, a podder. They had been born in the same pod.
      • 'It's the essential meat gunk that is supplied to the still-living podders,' she explained.
      • Paul says he started out as a Podder. He tried to do development deals with the Inner and Outer Systems, and he only became a renegade when he was betrayed by both.'
   3. 6

      One who listens to music on an iPod.

      • Due to the signature white earphones, iPod users are able to recognize other "podders," an activity referred to as pod spotting.
      • You can still see podders with that vacant, 1,000-yard stare in coffeehouses, checkout lines and on treadmills, but the numbers are dwindling.
      • Novice podders need to be clear here about the important difference between restoring and updating iPod software.
   4. 7

      One who creates and broadcasts podcasts.

      • I find blogs to be very useful, but I'm not a blogger, I'm a podder.
      • While a bizarre number of podcasts do seem to come from American states dominated by vowels (Idaho, Utah, Indiana, etc.), there are growing numbers of proud podders flying the flag for Britain.
      • The next most prolific pod producers are the straight-to-pod crowd, many of whom are basement podders, producing pods about everything from films to model airplane building to stand-up comedy.
   5. 8

      Alternative form of pother.

      • What a podder about a translation!
      • As soon as I saw it, bless me, think I, what a podder is here troubling this gentleman with so many long printed letters.
   6. 9

      Pronunciation spelling of powder.

      • If Ah'd only got some podder, Ah can mek Fourt' of July raght here.
      • Thursday the Therd Day: I Kept Laising aBought all Day for I was very Laisay only I made a Stople to a podder Horn : and So on:
   7. 10

      Alternative form of podar (“a money changer”)

      • B., a Podder in the Bank, demanded and took a reward for his trouble in receiving the money.
      • Five of these 100-rupee notes have been traced to a podder or money-changer in the Fort, who deposes that he received them from four soldiers in the Royal Fusiliers.
      • He mentioned that he had no time to check the scrolls, and that the statement of the tellers and podders was quite false.
   8. 11

      A frog or toad.

      • It sounds like treacle,' said Abe, with a puzzled look; but I don't see what the podder's got to do with it, anyhow; and the young woman's got no business to be wasting her time waiting for the milk to set.
      • Now and then toads would appear, and the shout " There's a podder!" would come from some child or other during an acute moving crisis.
      • Speaking of toads—after a rainfall in South African country places, the roads would be hopping with great, fat, ugly, croaking toads (known to us kids as 'podders').
   9. 12

      Alternative form of podware.

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