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Polder vs Podder - What's the difference?

polder | podder |

As nouns the difference between polder and podder

is that polder is (geography) an area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes while podder is one who collects pods or pulse.

polder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geography) An area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes.
  • *1999 , (Philipp Blom), translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City , Vintage 2001, p. 43:
  • *:The patron saint of the Oude Kerk, Saint Nicolaas, the ‘water saint’, was also very popular, as he protected the sailors and those living on the polders from the dangers of the sea.

    • podder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who collects pods or pulse.
  • * 1807 , Society of Arts (Great Britain), The Complete Farmer
    • And it is added, that it is frequently a practice with the large cultivators of early green pea crops, in the neighbourhood of London, to dispose of them, by the acre, to inferior persons, who procure the podders
    (Webster 1913)