sodder
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See also: Sodder
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
sodder (plural sodders)
- An agricultural implement for scooping or stripping a layer of topsoil and picking it up intact to lay it down as a cover growth or lawn elsewhere.
- 1978, Annual Report, USDA Forest Service:
- The dryland sodder strips the top layer of soil and vegetation (sod, soil, shrubs and small trees) from areas to be surface mined and places it intact over reshaped areas. The soil layer is scooped into the sodder and transported to the reclamation area. It is removed by tilting and shaking the bucket while slowly moving the loader backward... A conveyor system is being developed for the bottom of the dryland sodder to aid loading and unloading the sod strips...
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
sodder (uncountable)
Verb[edit]
sodder (third-person singular simple present sodders, present participle soddering, simple past and past participle soddered)
- (obsolete or dialect) To solder.
- 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section IX. A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 175:
- [...] I juſtly formed this Concluſion to my ſelf; That whatever Philoſopher or Projector can find out an Art to ſodder and patch up the Flaws and Imperfections of Nature, will deſerve much better of Mankind, and teach us a more uſeful Science, than that ſo much in preſent eſteem, of widening and expoſing them (like him who held Anatomy to be the ultimate End of Phyſick.)
Usage notes[edit]
- The pronunciation corresponding to sodder remains in widespread use, but the spelling is still overwhelmingly solder.
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
sodder (plural sodders)
- (derogatory, vulgar) sodomite, sod, bugger