podder

English

Etymology 1

pod +‎ -er

Noun

podder (plural podders)

1. One who collects pods or pulse.
   • 1778, T. S., “Proposals for raising Female Regiments”, in The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 9, page 584:

     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.

   • 1807, “The Complete Farmer”, in Society of Arts, Great Britain:

     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 […]

   • 1820, Thomas Green, The Universal herbal, page 345:

     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.

   • 1868 May, “Ballads from the Highways and Hedges”, in The Christian world magazine, volume 4, page 344:

     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.

2. Any of various devices for harvesting and/or removing the pods from peas, beans, or other crops with pods.
   • 1902, Olin Lee Deming, Science and Experiment as Applied to Canning, page 97:

     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.

   • 1907, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Crops, page 170:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 1982, Horticulture Now - Issues 2-9, page 29:

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

   • 2012, Douglas M. Considine, Foods and Food Production Encyclopedia, page 172:

     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.

3. A plant that produces pods, or the vegetable produced by such a plant.
   • 1801 August 1, “Peas at Chiswick”, in The Gardener's Chronicle, volume 10, page 133:

     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.

   • 1899 January 28, J. Crawford, “Essex Peas”, in The Garden, volume 55, page 64:

     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.

   • 1971, Farm and Factory - Volume 6, page 27:

     It is too, cultivated as a podder crop in the beginning.

   • 1997, Rastislava Stoličná, Katarína Apáthyová-Rusnáková, Slovakia: European Contexts of the Folk Culture, page 104:

     Vegetable proteins were secured in food by a rich consumption of podders.

4. One who identifies the sex of hemp plants by their production of pods.
   • 1912 August 24, T.J. Savage, “Book Reviews: An Essay on Hasheesh. By Victor Robinson”, in The Lancet-clinic, volume 108, page 213:

     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. (science fiction) One who was born in or lives in a pod.
   • 2007, Samuel Blankson, The Kolumbas Affair, page 195:

     Brrrtr had even sent Hrrryr, a podder. They had been born in the same pod.

   • 2010, Robertski Brothers, The McAtrix Derided:

     'It's the essential meat gunk that is supplied to the still-living podders,' she explained.

   • 2013, Charles Sheffield, Proteus Unbound:

     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.'

6. One who listens to music on an iPod.
   • 2004, Innovation: The Journal of the Industrial Designers Society of America, page 32:

     Due to the signature white earphones, iPod users are able to recognize other "podders," an activity referred to as pod spotting.

   • 2006 July, Peter Buffa, “Hot stuff— for now”, in Orange Coast Magazine, volume 32, number 7, page 192:

     You can still see podders with that vacant, 1,000-yard stare in coffeehouses, checkout lines and on treadmills, but the numbers are dwindling.

   • 2010, Steve Levine, The Art Of Downloading Music:

     Novice podders need to be clear here about the important difference between restoring and updating iPod software.

7. One who creates and broadcasts podcasts.
   • 2005, Library Journal - Volume 130, Issues 8-13, page 12:

     I find blogs to be very useful, but I'm not a blogger, I'm a podder.

   • 2005, Steve Shipside, Podcasting: The ultimate starter kit, page 87:

     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.

   • 2007, Our Times - Volumes 26-27, page 19:

     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.

Etymology 2

Noun

podder (plural podders)

1. Alternative form of pother
   • 1745, John Graham, Simon Pure unmask'd: or, the Errors of Quakerism display'd, page 26:

     As to the Light within, you make such a Podder about as if a Man could not tell that two and two were equal to four without it discovered it to him, I fhall give you my Sentiments about it: The Light within you understand to be the Spirit of Christ, or a Part of the Divine Nature;

   • 1925, William Hickling Prescott, Roger Wolcott, The Correspondence of William Hickling Prescott, 1833-1847, page 562:

     What a podder about a translation!

   • 1946, English Association, Essays and Studies - Volume 32, page 38:

     As soon as I saw it, bless me, think I, what a podder is here troubling this gentleman with so many long printed letters.

   • 1991, David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, page 574:

     “What a podder [pother] has this noble blood made in the world . . . ,” he declared, “methinks nothing of man's folly has less show of reason to palliate it.”

Etymology 3

Noun

podder (countable and uncountable, plural podders)

1. Pronunciation spelling of powder.
   • 1894 July 5, “Fourth of July at Highfield Poorhouse”, in Youth's Companion, volume 67, page 307:

     If Ah'd only got some podder, Ah can mek Fourt' of July raght here.

   • 1966, Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum - Volume 12, page 281:

     Thursday the Therd Day: I Kept Laising aBought all Day for I was very Laisay only I made a Stople to a podder Horn : and So on:

   • 2005, Kenneth Tucker, A Wilderness of Tigers, page 5:

     And when I remarked I couldn't provide 'em with no meat since I was out of podder for my rifle, Micajah--or Big Harpe as some calls him-- he smiled, sorta chuckled, and lent over the table, and said, 'No man oughta be without podder,' — or something like that and then poured out of his own horn.

Etymology 4

Noun

podder (plural podders)

1. (India) A money changer.
   • 1880, Kedarnath Ghosh, Compendium of Criminal Rulings:

     B., a Podder in the Bank, demanded and took a reward for his trouble in receiving the money.

   • 1915, Government Gazette: The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, page 48:

     Five of these 100-rupee notes have been traced to a podder or money-changer in the Fort, who deposes that he received them from four soldiers in the Royal Fusiliers.

   • 1957, Labour Law Journal, page 101:

     He mentioned that he had no time to check the scrolls, and that the statement of the tellers and podders was quite false.

Etymology 5

Noun

podder (plural podders)

1. (South Africa) A frog or toad.
   • 1898, The Literary World - Volume 57, page 70:

     It sounds like treacle,' said Abe, with a puzzled look; but I don't see what the podder's got to do with it, anyhow; and the young woman's got no business to be wasting her time waiting for the milk to set.

   • 1930, Mother Cecile in South Africa, 1883-1906: Foundress of the Community of the Resurrection of Our Lord, page 37:

     Now and then toads would appear, and the shout " There's a podder!" would come from some child or other during an acute moving crisis.

   • 2006, F. M. K. Ridgway, Our Wandering Years, page 227:

     Speaking of toads—after a rainfall in South African country places, the roads would be hopping with great, fat, ugly, croaking toads (known to us kids as 'podders').