Word: podder Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From pod + -er. 1. One who collects pods or pulse. Example: 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. Example: 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[…] 2. Any of various devices for harvesting and/or removing the pods from peas, beans, or other crops with pods. Example: 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. Example: 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. 3. A plant that produces pods, or the vegetable produced by such a plant. Example: 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. Example: 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. 4. One who identifies the sex of hemp plants by their production of pods. Example: 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. 5. One who was born in or lives in a pod. Example: Brrrtr had even sent Hrrryr, a podder. They had been born in the same pod. Example: 'It's the essential meat gunk that is supplied to the still-living podders,' she explained. 6. One who listens to music on an iPod. Example: Due to the signature white earphones, iPod users are able to recognize other "podders," an activity referred to as pod spotting. Example: You can still see podders with that vacant, 1,000-yard stare in coffeehouses, checkout lines and on treadmills, but the numbers are dwindling. 7. One who creates and broadcasts podcasts. Example: I find blogs to be very useful, but I'm not a blogger, I'm a podder. Example: 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.