A. adj. Abounding in sods; consisting or composed of sods; of the nature of a sod.
1611. Cotgr., Motteux, cloddie, turfie, soddie.
1778. [W. H. Marshall], Minutes Agric., Observ., 98. By burying the soddy edge of the Plit, they are now less grassy than the Leys were before plowing.
1846. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., VII. I. 168. Reduce the soddy texture of the soil.
B. sb. A sod-house. U.S.
1893. Pilgrim Missionary, June, 8/1. Brother T— has a large circuit of three churches, and lives in a ‘soddy.’
