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podar dial.
Also poder.
[app. a. Cornish podar rotten, worthless.]
A local name of mundic or copper pyrites.
[1754Borlase Antiq. Cornw. Cornish-Eng. Voc. 403/2 Podar, rotten: corrupt: id. Mundic: ugly.] 1816Paris Guide Mount's Bay & Land's End 117 Upon the first discovery of copper ore, the miner, to whom its nature was entirely unknown, gave it the name of Poder... About the year 1735,..Mr. Coster a mineralogist of Bristol observed this Poder among the heaps of rubbish. |