different between podder vs ponder

English

Etymology

pod +? -er

Noun

podder (plural podders)

1. One who collects pods or pulse.
   • 1807, Society of Arts (Great Britain), The Complete Farmer

     And it is added, that it is frequently a practice with the large cultivators of early green pea crops, in the neighbourhood of London, to dispose of them, by the acre, to inferior persons, who procure the podders […]

English

Etymology

From Middle English ponderen, from Old French ponderer (“to weigh, balance, ponder”) from Latin ponderare (“to weigh, ponder”), from pondus (“weight”), from pendere (“to weigh”); see pendent and pound.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?n.d?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?n.d?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Verb

ponder (third-person singular simple present ponders, present participle pondering, simple past and past participle pondered)

1. To wonder, think of deeply.
2. To consider (something) carefully and thoroughly.

   Synonyms: chew over, mull over; see also Thesaurus:ponder
3. (obsolete) To weigh.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

ponder (plural ponders)

1. (colloquial) A period of deep thought.

Further reading

• ponder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ponder in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Penrod, proned