pod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒd/
ipa: /ˈpɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
homophone: pawed (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: pods
form: podding
form: podded
form: podded
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), itself possibly from Old English pād (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paidō (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh₂- (“woolen clothes”). If so, then cognate with Old Saxon pēda (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “mantle, skirt”), and perhaps Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”) and Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore it was, that many ignorant Mardians, who had not pushed their investigations into the science of physiology, sagely divined, that the Tapparians must have podded into life like peas, instead of being otherwise indebted for their existence.
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi, and a Voyage Thither:
text: David looked seawards along the river. He stared, rubbed his eyes, and stared again. One of the rocks seemed to have podded into something swollen, black and smooth.
ref: 1939, Leonard Alfred George Strong, The Open Sky, page 64:
text: In the herbaceous border many flowers had seeded and podded; spears of them, brown, now rose up behind the mauve blur of the michaelmas daisies.
ref: 2012, Deborah Moggach, You Must Be Sisters, →ISBN, page 219:
glosses: To bear or produce pods
glosses: To remove peas from their case.
examples: text: Thus the torpedoes will have to be stored internally or be podded into streamline containers.
ref: 1955, Military Review - Volume 35, Issue 9, page 81:
text: Lycoming is working on a twin T53 or T55 turboprop installation whereby two engines would be podded together to drive a single propeller.
ref: 1957, Aviation Week - Volume 66, page 23:
text: One, called An- 12BZ-2, was a single-point hose-and- drogue tanker similar to the RAF's Lockheed C-130K Hercules C.1K, except that the hose drum unit was podded, not built in.
ref: 2004, Yefim Gordon, Dmitriy Komissarov, Antonov An-12 Cub, page 90:
text: This was to be achieved by increasing the number of Lotarev D-18T engines to 8 by podding the inboard pylons on each side to take two engines (see Fig. 7).
ref: 2006, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society - Volume 59, page 130:
text: In June 2009, the company opened another facility in Tianjin to provide nacelle and thrust-reverser MRO services and to support engine buildup and podding work for the new Airbus A320 assembly line in the same city.
ref: 2011, Roger Cliff, Chad J. R. Ohlandt, David Yang, Ready for Takeoff: China's Advancing Aerospace Industry, →ISBN:
text: Then i was podded by a buddie of mine, working the burrough next to mine, all humans had a blue rabbit glow around them and seemed to sleep walk out of the burrough out in to a field while a sound like; ta-ta-dah-taaa, soundeḍ ̣̪continously [sic], where they waited while looking up in the sky.
ref: 2012, Gabriel Blue Melchizedek, The Alienvirus, →ISBN:
glosses: To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
glosses: To swell or fill.