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Definition of Codder
1. n. A gatherer of cods or peas.
Definition of Codder
1. Noun. A gatherer of cods or peas. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete late 16th century) A saddler or leatherworker. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Codder
1. a cod fisherman [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Codder
Literary usage of Codder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics by John Milton Mackie (1864)
"The Cape codder is omnipresent. He casts his line wherever there are codfish.
If there is a school of bass or mackerel on any coast, he is after them with ..."
2. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1881)
"No man reads Cape Cod Folks with more delight than a genuine Cape codder. ...
What middle-aged Cape codder has not seen Grandma Nightingale, scores of times ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1884)
"... or codder, the name given to a football, but apparently passing out of use,
though still woll known. ..."
4. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe). by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"... or codder, the name given to a football, but apparently passing out of use,
though still well known. See Preface, ' Football. ..."
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