podder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podders
Etymology: From pod + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1778, T. S., “Proposals for raising Female Regiments”, in The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 9, page 584:
text: 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[…]
ref: 1807, “The Complete Farmer”, in Society of Arts, Great Britain:
text: 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.
ref: 1820, Thomas Green, The Universal herbal, page 345:
text: This tent, Pitched in a grassy angle of the lane, Stood as the outpost of the podder's camp; Rude, travelling people, with their carts and asses, Potters or tinkers, kindred to the gipsy, Who hither yearly came for the pea-harvest, And had encampment here.
ref: 1868 May, “Ballads from the Highways and Hedges”, in The Christian world magazine, volume 4, page 344:
glosses: One who collects pods or pulse.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1902, Olin Lee Deming, Science and Experiment as Applied to Canning, page 97:
text: In the “podder” the mechanism is still simpler. Instead of passing the whole vines into the machine, the pods are picked off by hand and these are fed into the machine through a hopper. The removal of the peas from the pods is effected in the same way as in the viner, and the peas and pods delivered by chutes.
ref: 1907, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Crops, page 170:
text: 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.
ref: 1914, R.P. Scott, “Solving the Riddle of Hulling Peas”, in Arthur I Judge, editor, Souvenir of the 7th Annual Convention of the National Canners' and Allied Associations, Baltimore, Feb'y 2 to 7, 1914, page 90:
text: The podder can also harvest awkward corners in a field previously left unharvested.
ref: 1982, Horticulture Now - Issues 2-9, page 29:
text: As the product is dumped from the hopper conveyor through the podder chain into the hopper, the secondary fan removes most of the remaining trash. The podder chain returns large trash and pods to the reel.
ref: 2012, Douglas M. Considine, Foods and Food Production Encyclopedia, page 172:
glosses: Any of various devices for harvesting and/or removing the pods from peas, beans, or other crops with pods.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1801 August 1, “Peas at Chiswick”, in The Gardener's Chronicle, volume 10, page 133:
text: 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.
ref: 1899 January 28, J. Crawford, “Essex Peas”, in The Garden, volume 55, page 64:
text: It is too, cultivated as a podder crop in the beginning.
ref: 1971, Farm and Factory - Volume 6, page 27:
text: Vegetable proteins were secured in food by a rich consumption of podders.
ref: 1997, Rastislava Stoličná, Katarína Apáthyová-Rusnáková, Slovakia: European Contexts of the Folk Culture, page 104:
glosses: A plant that produces pods, or the vegetable produced by such a plant.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1912 August 24, T.J. Savage, “Book Reviews: An Essay on Hasheesh. By Victor Robinson”, in The Lancet-clinic, volume 108, page 213:
glosses: One who identifies the sex of hemp plants by their production of pods.
examples: text: Brrrtr had even sent Hrrryr, a podder. They had been born in the same pod.
ref: 2007, Samuel Blankson, The Kolumbas Affair, page 195:
text: 'It's the essential meat gunk that is supplied to the still-living podders,' she explained.
ref: 2010, Robertski Brothers, The McAtrix Derided:
text: 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.'
ref: 2013, Charles Sheffield, Proteus Unbound:
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glosses: One who was born in or lives in a pod.
examples: text: Due to the signature white earphones, iPod users are able to recognize other "podders," an activity referred to as pod spotting.
ref: 2004, Innovation: The Journal of the Industrial Designers Society of America, page 32:
text: You can still see podders with that vacant, 1,000-yard stare in coffeehouses, checkout lines and on treadmills, but the numbers are dwindling.
ref: 2006 July, Peter Buffa, “Hot stuff— for now”, in Orange Coast Magazine, volume 32, number 7, page 192:
text: Novice podders need to be clear here about the important difference between restoring and updating iPod software.
ref: 2010, Steve Levine, The Art Of Downloading Music:
glosses: One who listens to music on an iPod.
examples: text: I find blogs to be very useful, but I'm not a blogger, I'm a podder.
ref: 2005, Library Journal - Volume 130, Issues 8-13, page 12:
text: 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.
ref: 2005, Steve Shipside, Podcasting: The ultimate starter kit, page 87:
text: 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.
ref: 2007, Our Times - Volumes 26-27, page 19:
glosses: One who creates and broadcasts podcasts.