hod

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noun
  1. a portable trough for carrying mortar, bricks, etc., fixed crosswise on top of a pole and carried on the shoulder.

  2. a coal scuttle.

Origin of hod

1
1565–75; perhaps later variant of Middle English hot basket for carrying earth

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How to use hod in a sentence

  • I speired at her whaur she had hod it, but she juist said, 'What would I be doin' hoddin't'?'

    A Window in Thrums | J. M. Barrie
  • He kent 'at if she'd hod it, the kitchen maun be the place, but he thocht she'd gi'en it to me to hod.

    A Window in Thrums | J. M. Barrie
  • So she had to go down cellar and bring up as much as she could in the hod.

  • Broadcloth is wiser, just as a skilled workman is wiser than a hod carrier.

    The Diamond Coterie | Lawrence L. Lynch
  • Fanny opened the coal-hod, intending to put fresh coals on the dying fire; but, to her distress, found that the hod was empty.

    Betty Vivian | L. T. Meade

British Dictionary definitions for hod

hod

/ (hɒd) /


noun
  1. an open metal or plastic box fitted with a handle, for carrying bricks, mortar, etc

  2. a tall narrow coal scuttle

Origin of hod

1
C14: perhaps alteration of C13 dialect hot, from Old French hotte pannier, creel, probably from Germanic

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