sod

«sod» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: boiled — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

boiled

part of speech

verb, past tense of seethe

meaning for a pupil

Boiled, cooked in boiling liquid, in the past. tree →

how it differs from today

Today sod is a piece of turf (grass with earth and roots) or a rude word. The first sentence uses the old past form of seethe; the other two use today's sense of turf.

examples

• And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint. (Torah GEN.25.29, JPS 1917) tree →
• So soon as she touches with the root the sod that blocks the nest, it will fly violently out of the hole. (The Crimson Fairy Book) tree →
• You remember the baskets I left there with the sod from Ireland in one and the sod from Scotland in the other; bring me the baskets and sods.” (Irish Fairy Tales) tree →

primary record

sod

tests

manual 6; corpora 11 (Torah 1, tales 10, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.2 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And Jacob sod pottage; and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sod» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.