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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sod/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sod/#x1)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sod/#x2)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sod/#x3)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.726/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sod» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sod/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.