† ploud Sc. Obs.
Also 6 plod.
[Derivation unknown.]
A green sod, a turf.
| 1535 Aberdeen Regr. XV. (Jam.), xij laid of elding, half pettis, half plodis. Ibid., ixxx layd of elding, peittis & ploddis. 1793 Statist. Acc. Scot. VI. 218 They are supplied with turf and heather from the muirs, and a sort of green sods, called plouds, which they cast in the exhausted mosses. |