Now dial. [f. SOD pa. pple.]
1. intr. To become sodden or soaked; to stick together through wetness.
1642. D. Rogers, Naaman, 3. The tree which hath long been sodding in the ditch.
1644. Plattes, in Hartlib’s Legacy (1655), 218. If Sand, whence comes its clamminess and aptness to sod together?
a. 1722. Lisle, Husb. (1757), 288. If the hay made of it sods a little in the wet,… it becomes tasteless.
2. trans. To soak with wet.
1895. A. Patterson, Man & Nat. on the Broads, 125. Work on the land where wet grass an’ rubbidge sod (soak) yer trowsers below.
Sod, obs. pa. t. of SEETHE v.
