podders

Noun

podder (plural podders)

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...1778, T. S., “Proposals for raising Female Regiments”, in The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 9, page 584
2. 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.1902, Olin Lee Deming, Science and Experiment as Applied to Canning, page 97
3. 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.1801 August 1, “Peas at Chiswick”, in The Gardener's Chronicle, volume 10, page 133
4. 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...1912 August 24, T.J. Savage, “Book Reviews: An Essay on Hasheesh. By Victor Robinson”, in The Lancet-clinic, volume 108, page 213
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.2007, Samuel Blankson, The Kolumbas Affair, page 195
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.2004, Innovation: The Journal of the Industrial Designers Society of America, page 32

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