coal hod

American  

noun

1. a small pail for carrying coal; a coal scuttle.

---

Etymology

Origin of coal hod

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

coal hod

She had a black satin Methodist bonnet, very much the shape of a coal hod, and the color of her own complexion, only there was a slight shade of blue in it.

From Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary H. (Mary Henderson) Eastman

When she was a baby, Jo had accidently dropped her into the coal hod, and Amy insisted that the fall had ruined her nose forever.

From Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

"Godfrey scissors!" he panted, shaking his snow-plastered cap over the coal hod.

From Cy Whittaker's Place by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

I gripped her hand and sat staring into the little coal hod fireplace which we didn't light more than once a month now.

From One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America by William Carleton

"A coal hod is such an infernal tote to tote!"

From Flood Tide by Sara Ware Bassett