Definition of "kodak"

kodak

noun
plural kodaks
1. (dated) A camera: a device for taking still photographs.
  Quotations
  To diagnose / Our modest pose / The Kodaks do their best
  1893, W. S. Gilbert (lyrics), Utopia, Limited
  Charmian and Martin brought up the rear, armed with kodaks. We dived under the avocado trees […] and came on a spot that satisfied Martin's photographic eye.
  1911 June, Jack London, chapter 17, in The Cruise of the Snark, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company
2. (dated) A still photograph.
  Quotations
  There were photographs everywhere: photographs framed and unframed; photographs large and photographs small, the fresh and the faded; tintypes, kodaks, “full lengths,” “cabinets,” groups—every type of photograph; […]
  1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 70
  You may consult the kodaks taken at my arrest if you are curious, Archivist.
  2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 338
verb
third-person singular simple present kodaks, present participle kodaking, simple past and past participle kodaked
1. (transitive, dated) To photograph.
  Quotations
  A knot of obviously American tourists were kodaking his lodge-gates.
  1917, Rudyard Kipling, The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat
2. (transitive, dated) To describe or characterise briefly and vividly.