Meaning of sodder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from Italian
2. An agricultural implement for scooping or stripping a layer of topsoil and picking it up intact to lay it down as a cover growth or lawn elsewhere.
3. Solder.
   dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
4. sodomite, sod, bugger
   derogatory, vulgar

Examples

“The dryland sodder strips the top layer of soil and vegetation (sod, soil, shrubs and small trees) from areas to be surface mined and places it intact over reshaped areas. The soil layer is scooped into the sodder and transported to the reclamation area. It is removed by tilting and shaking the bucket while slowly moving the loader backward... A conveyor system is being developed for the bottom of the dryland sodder to aid loading and unloading the sod strips...”

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