Podder
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who collects pods or pulse.
"That strength of body is often equal to the courage of mind implanted in the fair sex, will not be denied by those who have seen the water-women of Plymouth; the female drudges of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland; the fish-women of Billinsgate; the weeders, podders, and hoppers, who swarm the fields; and the lowest beings of the feminine gender wo swagger in the streets of London."
- 2 Alternative form of pother. alt-of, alternative
"As to the Light within, you make such a Podder about as if a Man could not tell that two and two were equal to four without it discovered it to him, I fhall give you my Sentiments about it: The Light within you understand to be the Spirit of Christ, or a Part of the Divine Nature;"
- 3 Pronunciation spelling of powder. alt-of, countable, pronunciation-spelling, uncountable
"If Ah'd only got some podder, Ah can mek Fourt' of July raght here."
- 4 A money changer. India
"B., a Podder in the Bank, demanded and took a reward for his trouble in receiving the money."
- 5 A frog or toad. South-Africa
"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."
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- 6 Alternative form of podware. alt-of, alternative, dialectal
- 7 Any of various devices for harvesting and/or removing the pods from peas, beans, or other crops with pods.
"Another advantage of the "podder" lies in the fact that the peas do not get wet and sticky from the juice of the vines , but remain dry and so may be more quickly and easily cleaned, thus shortening the time before the peas are in the cans."
- 8 A plant that produces pods, or the vegetable produced by such a plant.
"No such peas now should ever receive any award of merit. We want a rather dwarfer race generally, and especially we want more quality in our first early sorts. Not only in fact are these of indifferent quality, but they are poor podders and croppers."
- 9 One who identifies the sex of hemp plants by their production of pods.
"He says, on page 19, in speaking of the "podder, "whose duty it is to cut out all the male plants in the hemp fields, and who reverses the usual order of designating sex by calling the useful female plants males, and the useless males females: "If we had such impudent podders in the animal world, now doubt the valuable Miss Jane Addams would be metamorphosed into James, while the unnecessary Mr. Anthoony Comstock would be adorned with a female appellation."
- 10 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."
- 11 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."
- 12 One who creates and broadcasts podcasts.
"I find blogs to be very useful, but I'm not a blogger, I'm a podder."
Example
More examples"That strength of body is often equal to the courage of mind implanted in the fair sex, will not be denied by those who have seen the water-women of Plymouth; the female drudges of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland; the fish-women of Billinsgate; the weeders, podders, and hoppers, who swarm the fields; and the lowest beings of the feminine gender wo swagger in the streets of London."
Etymology
From pod + -er.
Alteration of podware.
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