noun

1. a dry fruit or seed vessel developed from a single carpel enclosing one or more seeds and usually splitting along two sutures at maturity, as a legume
2. a podlike container, as a cocoon of a locust
3. ☆ any of various enclosures, as a streamlined housing for a jet engine

Etymology: Early ModE < ?

intransitive verb podded pod′·ded, podding pod′·ding

1. to bear pods
2. to swell out into a pod

noun

Etymology: ? special use of pod

noun

1. a sharp groove in certain augers and other tools
2. the socket for the bit in a brace

Etymology: < ?