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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pod \Pod\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Podded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Podding}.] To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
-pod \-pod\ [See {Foot}.] A combining form or suffix from Gr. poy's, podo's, foot; as, decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal having leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pod \Pod\, noun [Probably akin to pudding, and perhaps the same word as pad a cushion; cf. also Dan. pude pillow, cushion, and also E. cod a husk, pod.]
1. A bag; a pouch. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Tusser.
2. (Bot.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of {Angiospermous}.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals.
{Pod auger}, or {pod bit}, an auger or bit the channel of which is straight instead of twisted.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pod
noun
1: the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) [syn: {cod}, {seedcase}]
2: a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant [syn: {seedpod}]
3: a group of aquatic mammals
4: a detachable container of fuel on an airplane [syn: {fuel pod}]
verb
1: take something out of its shell or pod; "pod peas or beans"
2: produce pods, of plants [also: {podding}, {podded}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "pod": army, bark, bay window, boll, bran, bunch, burr, capsule, case, chaff, cod, colony, corn shuck, cornhusk, corporation, drift, drive, drove, flock, follicle, gam, gang, herd, host, hull, husk, jacket, kennel, legume, legumen, litter, pack, palea, paunch, pease cod, peel, pericarp, pot, pride, rind, school, seed pod, seed vessel, seedbox, seedcase, shell, shoal, shuck, silique, skin, skulk, sloth, slough, trip, troop
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
pod n. [allegedly from abbreviation POD for 'Prince Of Darkness'] A Diablo 630 (or, latterly, any letter-quality impact printer). From the DEC-10 PODTYPE program used to feed formatted text to it. Not to be confused with {P.O.D.}.
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
P.O.D. /P-O-D/ [rare] Acronym for 'Piece Of Data' (as opposed to a code section). See also {pod}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
pod Not to be confused with {P.O.D.}.
1. (Allegedly from abbreviation POD for "Prince Of Darkness") A {Diablo} 630 (or, latterly, any {letter-quality} {impact printer}). From the {DEC-10} {PODTYPE} program used to feed formatted text to it. 2. {Plain Old Documentation}. [{Jargon File}] (1998-12-18)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
P.O.D. Piece Of Data (as opposed to {code}). [{Jargon File}] (2000-04-08)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
POD Plain Old Document [format]
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
POD Print / Publishing On Demand, "PoD"
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