south. dial. [f. KID sb.3 (If it were an old word, it might go back to an OE. *cyddan:—*kuddjan, f. *kuddo-z, whence OE. cod(d, COD sb.1).] intr. Of plants: To form pods (chiefly with advs.). Hence Kidding vbl. sb.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 242. [It] seldom fails of a good burthen, though sometimes it doth not kid very well.
1776. T. Bowden, Farm. Direct., 53. If the vetches are not cut green … many farmers allow them to stand till they kid and the kids begin to fill.
1883. Hampsh. Gloss., s.v., ‘They beans have kidded uncommon well.’
