ˈpodware Obs. exc. dial.
Also 7–9 podder.
[Of uncertain origin: cf. codware, 1398–1699, and pedware, 1577–1706.
The first element suggests pod of pease, beans, etc.; but this is not known till nearly a century later than podware, which moreover in quot. 1584 is not applied to pulse or podded plants, and in quot. 1677 has not necessarily such a sense. In quot. 1736 the word is associated with pod.]
Field crops; fodder for cattle; in later use app. pulse, or plants having pods (= codware).
| 1584 R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xii. vi. (1886) 179 [They] suffocate and spoile..grasse, greene corne, and ripe corne, and all other podware. 1617 in Archæol. Cant. (1902) XXV. 15 Robert Terry [presented] for profaning of the Sabbath Day, by binding barley, and powting [= stacking] of podder, upon the Sabbath. 1677 Plot Oxfordsh. 153 Dill or Lentills, in poor stone-brash land, which are a good podware for cattle. 1736 J. Lewis Hist. Thanet Gloss. s.v. Libbit, The hagister..was in the poddergrotten. Ibid., Podder, podware; beans, peas, tares or vetches, or such ware as has pods. 1794 Boys Agric. Kent 31 Some farmers are bound to sow wheat after beans, on land not fit to produce beans; to leave a quantity of podware gratten, for a wheat tilth on farms where some sorts of podware is the worst tilth known to sow wheat upon. [1887 Kentish Gloss., Podder, a name given to beans, peas, tares, vetches, or such vegetables as have pods.] |