The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pod \Pod\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Podded; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Podding.]
   To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

-pod \-pod\ [See Foot.]
   A combining form or suffix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as,
   decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal
   having leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Pod \Pod\, n. [Probably akin to pudding, and perhaps the same
   word as pad a cushion; cf. also Dan. pude pillow, cushion,
   and also E. cod a husk, pod.]
   1. A bag; a pouch. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Tusser.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Bot.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry
      dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.
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   3. (Zool.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered
      together; -- said of seals.
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   Pod auger, or pod bit, an auger or bit the channel of
      which is straight instead of twisted.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pod
    n 1: the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the
         seeds themselves) [syn: pod, cod, seedcase]
    2: a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous
       plant [syn: pod, seedpod]
    3: a group of aquatic mammals
    4: a detachable container of fuel on an airplane [syn: pod,
       fuel pod]
    v 1: take something out of its shell or pod; "pod peas or beans"
    2: produce pods, of plants

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

55 Moby Thesaurus words for "pod":
   army, bark, bay window, boll, bran, bunch, burr, capsule, case,
   chaff, cod, colony, corn shuck, cornhusk, corporation, drift,
   drive, drove, flock, follicle, gam, gang, herd, host, hull, husk,
   jacket, kennel, legume, legumen, litter, pack, palea, paunch,
   pease cod, peel, pericarp, pot, pride, rind, school, seed pod,
   seed vessel, seedbox, seedcase, shell, shoal, shuck, silique, skin,
   skulk, sloth, slough, trip, troop



V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

POD
       Plain Old Document [format]


V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

POD
       Print / Publishing On Demand, "PoD"


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

pod

   Not to be confused with P.O.D..

   1.  (Allegedly from abbreviation POD for "Prince Of
   Darkness") A Diablo 630 (or, latterly, any letter-quality
   impact printer).  From the DEC-10 PODTYPE program used
   to feed formatted text to it.

   2.  Plain Old Documentation.

   [Jargon File]

   (1998-12-18)