a. [f. SOD sb.1] Devoid of, not covered by, sods.

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1819.  Taunton Courier, 10 June, *8/1. Witness the strewed bones, the sodless graves, and the heaps of rubbish in this public burying place.

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a. 1847.  Eliza Cook, Poor Man’s Grave, i. 12. He … will not leave the sodless heap.

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