1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 20^v/2 The poddes or coddes that the beanes or other groweth in.

1566 Exam. Certaine Wytches sig. Aiiii^v Within a few daies after hee came againe with a beane pod in his mouth.

1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 230 Being past their maturity, the pod will open of it self in the heat of the day, and so lose out their beanes.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. iv. §7. 118 Bearing elegant purple blossoms, and a thin Pod. 3. Judas tree.

1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. iii. v. 186 The Seed-Case, whether it be called a Cod, Pod, or by any other name.

a1706 J. Evelyn Direct. for Gardiner (1932) 60 Let Carnation-seedes, abide in their pods 'til y^e Frosts.

1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 181 Cassia, or Locust. This is a kind of Pod or Cane, which grows upon a large Tree in some parts of Brazil.

1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane i. 43 (note) The pods [of the cacao]..seldom contain less than thirty nuts of the size of a flatted olive.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. iii. 40 You will understand this distinction..if you open the pod of a pea and of a stock at the same time.

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad ii. 84 From opening pods unbinds the fleecy store.

1833 R. Walker Flora Oxfordshire 210 The singular figure of the pods of the Horseshoe vetch must strike the most casual observer.

1882 C. E. L. Riddell Daisies & Buttercups I. 114 Where the broad-beans are now in pod.

1904 Speaker 23 Apr. 90/1 He gained a copper to buy some pods of red pepper to season the coarse bread.

1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) i. 20 The paper-bag bush, too, had gone to pod, just a few of its purple mint flowers left.

1951 S. H. Bell December Bride i. vii. 44 On the mantelpiece and deep window-ledge sat jars filled with tormentil, tansy and golden rod, and many other dried pods, flowers, barks and roots.

2000 Observer 18 June (Life Suppl.) 62/3 Mangetout and sugar-snap peas are eaten pods and all. The former never really develop proper peas and retain flat pods.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) 257 Pod, a fat protuberant belly.

1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases 128 Pod, a large stomach.

1929 Amer. Speech 5 129 A fat man..‘had quite a pod’.

2005 www.ammocity.com 29 Apr. (O.E.D. Archive) A bit worrying if you've been a bit of a beer monster and you're getting a bit of a pod up front.

1828 Boy's Own Bk. 19 The Bat Should not be higher than twenty-one inches in the pod.

1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 31 Instead..of the curved form of the pod, it was made straight.

1862 E. Routledge Handbk. Cricket 11 The regulation size of the bat..is thirty-eight inches in length, of which twenty-one inches are taken up by the pod, or, according to the more modern term, the blade.

1846 Critic 22 Aug. 233/2 The hairs..are arranged in a circular manner around the orifice in the genuine musk pod.

1891 W. T. Blanford Fauna Brit. India: Mammalia ii. 553 Many musk-deer are snared in nooses, others shot to secure the ‘musk-pod’, which is an article of commerce.

1976 W. H. Canaway Willow-pattern War xiv. 142 Thupten turned the deer over, made an incision in the belly, and withdrew the pod; a little bag, slimed and blood-dabbled. ‘There you are... One musk pod.’

1882 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 103 The pods are hauled into the boat and detached from the main net and their contents emptied into a tub.

1892 Longman's Mag. Nov. 88 In this long wall of net are three or four openings, to which purse-nets, about eighteen feet long, stretched on hoops..are attached, the far ends being closed. These ‘pods’ as they are called, are extended down stream and attached to stakes in the river bottom, their positions being marked by floats.

1893 J. Watson Confessions Poacher 99 The method of working the pod-net is the same in principle.

1916 Science 6 Oct. 489/1 The magnetite bodies occur in lenses, sheets and pods, surrounded by light-coloured gneiss and syenite.

1941 California Jrnl. Mines & Geol. 37 107 Kidneys or pods: Orebodies whose average length on the exposure is less than five times the average breadth and which characteristically have more or less rounded terminations.

1969 G. M. Bennison & A. E. Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles iii. 42 They occur as isolated pods distributed very widely through the Scourian granulites and their Inverian derivatives.

1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 543 Granodiorite shows extensive deuteric alteration and features pegmatites, quartz pods, and radial dikes.

1950 J. V. Casamassa Jet Aircraft Power Syst. 318 Jet pods are mounted beneath the wings.

1963 New Scientist 9 May 320/3 Rides are being ‘hitch-hiked’ on Atlas rockets for pods of space instruments.

1971 Times 11 Mar. 11/7 Each room—or suite of rooms—has its own bathroom ‘pod’.

1973 Sci. Amer. Aug. 13/1 A rotating radome, or radar pod, is mounted on two struts above the rear section of the fuselage.

1988 Def. & Foreign Affairs (Nexis) Oct.–Nov. 50 (table) MK.32 underwing pods for B.707 (Flight Refueling).

1998 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 16 Nov. (Business section) 1 An Azipod resembles the external clip-on electric motor/battery pods which have been used for many years on toy boats for children.

2001 Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville, Tennessee) (Nexis) 20 Mar. 1 a The sheriff fired him..because he ‘aimed and dry fired’ a high-powered rifle..into the prisoner pods at the jail.

1952 N.Y. Times 29 Apr. 25 So Diane smoked jive, pod, and tea.

1959 W. S. Burroughs Naked Lunch 8 A square wants to come on hip... Talks about ‘pod’, and smokes it now and then.

1979 High Times Mar. 19/1 Pod suggests seeds, buds, pollen, odors, all the multi~dimensional sensual life of the fine plant, while pot ought to remain a word for a thing you plant pod in.

1884 E. L. Sturtevant Maize 7 The Pod or Husk corn is a variety wherein each kernel is enclosed in a husk, as well as the ear... It seems probable that this pod corn should not be classed as a separate race.

1923 H. A. Wallace & E. N. Bressmann Corn & Corn Growing xxvi. 147 Pod corn—each kernel enclosed by a husk as well as the entire ear.

1980 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Jan. 99/1 They now contend that modern corn is derived from a wild type of popcorn known as pod corn and that teosinte arose from this wild corn by mutation.

2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 20 June h7 Another introduction is Pod corn, whose feathery kernels transform the entire ear into something resembling the neck of a fantastic bird.

1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 880 Ellobocarpus. Kaulf. Pod-Fern.

1958 Gardener's Golden Treasury 100 [Ceratopteris] thalictroides, ‘Pod Fern’, annual, finely-cut foliage.

1890 Cent. Dict. Pod-lover, the noctuid moth Dianothoecia capsophila: an English collectors name, translating the specific term.

1961 R. South Moths Brit. Isles 185 Subsp. capsophila Dup. (The Pod Lover..) which represents the species in Ireland, the Isle of Man, Lancashire, and Wales, is of a whitish ground colour and lacks the ochreous tint.

1984 B. Skinner Moths Brit. Isles 99/2 The Pod Lover... Ground colour of forewing blackish-brown with the stigmata and cross-lines outlined with white.

1904 T. F. Hunt Cereals in Amer. x. 164 Pod maize is rarely grown.

1960 W. V. Brelsford Handbk. Federation Rhodesia & Nyasaland xi. 240 There are seven groups or types of maize; these are dent, flint, flour, pop, sweet, waxy and pod maize.

2000 Americas (Eng. ed.) 52 The earliest ears had eight rows of individually wrapped poppable kernels of the now-extinct class known as pod maize.

a1829 H. Crow Mem. (1830) 227 They make much use of pod pepper, palm oil, and various kinds of herbs.

1882 R. Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 4) ii. iii. 607 The general name of Pod Pepper is applied to the fruits of the species and varieties of Capsicum.

1997 Copley News Service (Nexis) 25 Aug. Paprika is a member of the capsicum (pod pepper) family, which contains peppers from the very mildest..to those fiery hot, tiny peppers that can set your tongue afire.

1890 Cent. Dict. Pod-shell, a bivalve mollusc of the family Pharidæ.

1950 R. W. Miner Field Bk. Seashore Life xi. 598 Siliqua costata... The Ribbed Pod Shell... Siliqua squama... The Scaly Pod Shell.

1971 D. Nichols Oxf. Bk. Invertebr. 80/1 Pharus legumen (Pod Shell) is really related to the tellins.., but parallels the true razor shells in general shape.

1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 663/2 Nebalia..seems but the puny and degenerate representative of the once giant pod-shrimps of Silurian times.

2005 www.hmag.gla.ac.uk 29 Mar. (O.E.D. Archive) This formation has yielded a large eurypterid fauna below the waterfalls and the pod-shrimp Ceratiocaris papilio is relatively common here.

1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 396 Plants of a strange Nature, bearing pod-like Fruit.

1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) I. 260 A very long pod-like capsule.

1857 J. G. Wood Common Objects Sea Shore 33 Its specific title ‘siliculosus’ is given to it on account of the silicules, or little pod-like bodies, that are found on the branches.

1994 B. Gilroy Sunlight on Sweet Water 21 He was nicknamed ‘Ochro’, after the small, pod-like vegetable commonly grown in the kitchen gardens round the village.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 14^v Strong exeltred cart, that is clowted & shod, cart, ladder & wimble, with percer & pod.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 254 The lower part of the other limb of the stock is of brass, which is fixed by means of a screw passing through two ears of the brass part, and through the solid of the wood. This brass part is called the pod, and is furnished with a mortise, in the form of a square pyramid, for receiving different pieces of steel, which are secured by means of a spring in the pod.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 254 Bits are those pieces of steel which are inserted in the pod.

1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 88 Pod, a boring-tool for well sinking.]

1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Pod, the straight channel or groove in the body of certain forms of augers and boring-bits.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1757/2 Pod-bit, a boring-tool adapted to be used in a brace. It has a semicylindrical form, a hollow barrel, and at its end is a cutting lip which projects in advance of the barrel.

1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) iii. iii. 224/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The pike as he ageth, receiueth diuerse names, as from a frie to a gilthed, from a gilthed to a pod, from a pod to a iacke, from a iacke to a pickerell, from a pickerell to a pike, and last of all to a luce.

1827 A. Earle Tristan d'Acunha in Narr. Resid. N.Z. (1832) 331 I saw to-day, for the first time, what the settlers call a pod of sea-elephants.

1832 D. Webster Let. 4 May in Private Cor. (1857) I. 526 We saw several small pods of coots go by.

1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 171 The Sperm Whale is gregarious; and usually occurs in parties, which are termed by whalers ‘schools’ and ‘pods’.

1897 Speaker 16 Jan. 68/2 The ‘bachelors’ [sc. seals] are driven into pods.

1949 Chicago Daily News 12 Nov. (Comics) 4/3 A pod of seals scramble from the Arctic Sea onto a shelf of ice.

1977 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 14 July 26/1 I was called out on deck..to gaze on a pod of orcas, or killer whales, that flanked and followed our boat.

1996 Independent on Sunday 18 Feb. (Review Suppl.) 51/3 Nigel and Andy quickly tracked down a pod of about 50 bottlenose dolphins.

2002 J. Cartwright White Lightning xxvi. 240 A pod of whales, with healthy young, rounding the point.

1963 D. Botting in A. Smith Throw out Two Hands 263 It was possible to make hand-held movie shots (using pistol-grip or shoulder pod) with lenses of longer focus than usual.

1978 SLR Camera Sept. 35/1 Rarely does a good ‘pod’ have more than 3 leg extensions.

1991 Photo Answers July 96/2 Car window pod. An extremely handy support to have when you want to photograph something near the car.

2004 Home News Tribune (E. Brunswick, New Jersey) (Nexis) 7 Nov. b1 Various types of rifles, shotguns and machine guns, some resting on pods.

2006 US Fed News (Nexis) 12 June Rep. John Hostettler..has released this week's regular Pod-Report from Washington.

2009 @soccerlens 17 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 2 Nov. 2020) I like how the..pod is now sponsored by a betting co and how they spent a minute or so discussing bets for next week's matches.

2020 @dogslikesnacks 27 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 22 Sept. 2020) I started listening to a pod about Rojava, the women's militant anarchist commune in Syria.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 661/2 I podde.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ni ^v/2 To Podde, or porre, pungere.

1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) 74/1 Pod,..to poke.

1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 565/1 He podded mi i' t'ribs wi' his walkin' stick.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 587 The business of picking or podding the peas is usually performed by the labourers at a fixed price.

1866 Sci. Amer Aug. 132/2 I have found that, by gathering peas when they are young, and in their best condition for use, and then podding and scalding, and drying thoroughly in the sun, they will keep almost any length of time done up in paper bags.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 558/1 By the aid of modern machinery..the peas are podded by a ‘huller’.

1977 J. Hodgins Invention of World 142 They were sitting on the back step..while she podded peas.

1995 Church Times 25 Aug. 10/2 The children have become enthusiastic about podding peas and shelling beans.

1897 Speaker 17 Jan. 68/2 Females [sc. seals] are often podded with the ‘bachelors’.