paddy bird (padiberd)

The Java sparrow or ricebird, Munia or Padda oryzivora: so called from its frequenting paddy-fields. paddy-field (pad'i-feld), n. A rice-field; a field in which rice is grown. [East Indies.] A strolling company of players will act on the threshing floor beside the paddy - fields in the old primitive fashion. Colonial and Indian Exhibition , p. 38. paddy-melon (pad'i-melon), n. Same as pade melon. paddy-pounder (pad'i-pounder), n. In the East Indies, a machine for removing the husk from rice. The dried pulp is then removed by pounding in common paddy - pounders . Spons ' Encyc . Manuf ., I. 705.