(vbl.) sb. [f. SOD v.1]
1. The action of covering, laying or providing with sods.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 266/1. Soding, is the covering of little shourings and places of shade from Rain, with green Turfs or Grass Sods.
1753. Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl. s.v., Sodding of brick.
1860. B. Taylor, in Life & Lett., I. xv. 206. We have done something at clearing away rubbish, sodding, and making the surroundings fair to look upon.
1864. Atkinson, Stanton Grange, 111. The sodding of the roof was beautifully managed.
2. Sods or turfs as a material for forming or strengthening embankments, etc.
1852. Wiggins, Embanking, 18. But if banks of sand are attempted … the front or facing [should be] guarded with clay, turf, sodding, and stones.
1867. Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., III. II. 664. A good sodding … might be made from the marram.
3. attrib., as sodding-implement, -mallet, -spade.
1875. Knight, Dict. Mech., 2237/2. Sodding-implements. Tools for cutting sods and laying them down.
1891. Cent. Dict., s.v., Sodding-mallet. Ibid., Sodding-spade.
