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Pod \Pod\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Podded; p. pr. & vb. n. Podding.] To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods. [1913 Webster]

-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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

3.(Zool.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals. [1913 Webster]

Pod auger, or pod bit, an auger or bit the channel of which is straight instead of twisted. [1913 Webster]

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P.O.D.

<data> Piece Of Data (as opposed to code). [Jargon File]

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P.O.D. /P·O·D/

[rare; sometimes ‘POD’ without the periods] Acronym for ‘Piece Of Data’ or ‘Plain Old Data’ (as opposed to a code section, or a section containing mixed code and data). The latter expansion was in use by the C++ standards committee, for which it indicated a struct or class which only contains data (as in C), distinguished from one which has a constructor and member functions. There are things which you can do with a P.O.D. which you can't with a more general class.