Podder

Quick meaning: Podder is a noun meaning One who collects pods or pulse.

Meaning

One who collects pods or pulse.

More Meanings

1. Any of various devices for harvesting and/or removing the pods from peas, beans, or other crops with pods.
2. A plant that produces pods, or the vegetable produced by such a plant.
3. One who identifies the sex of hemp plants by their production of pods.
4. (science fiction) One who was born in or lives in a pod.
5. One who listens to music on an iPod.
6. One who creates and broadcasts podcasts.
7. Alternative form of pother.

Example Sentences

The podder can also harvest awkward corners in a field previously left unharvested.

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.

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[…]

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.

Word Forms

• podders

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include podosphere, peapod, podcase, podosperm, seedpod, shell.

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