sodder

sod +‎ -er

sodder (plural sodders)

1. 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...

sodder (uncountable)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) solder
   • 1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub, page 175:

     I justly formed this conclusion to myself, 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 physic).

sodder (third-person singular simple present sodders, present participle soddering, simple past and past participle soddered)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) solder

sodder (plural sodders)

1. (derogatory, vulgar) sodomite, sod, bugger

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