hod
Americannoun
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a portable trough for carrying mortar, bricks, etc., fixed crosswise on top of a pole and carried on the shoulder.
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a coal scuttle.
noun
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an open metal or plastic box fitted with a handle, for carrying bricks, mortar, etc
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a tall narrow coal scuttle
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of hod
1565–75; perhaps later variant of Middle English hot basket for carrying earth
Example Sentences
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When she was 9, Charlene, her parents and her seven siblings moved to Chicago, where her father worked as a Pullman porter and a hod carrier.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
If you are sitting at a desk, driving a taxi or carrying a hod, stop for a moment and ask: could a robot or machine do this job better?
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2015
Holmes made the headlines that day because he had funded his Olympic effort by working as a hod carrier.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2010
He was stocky, scrappy William O'Dwyer, ex-Brooklyn District Attorney, ex-Brigadier General, who once studied for the priesthood, became a bartender, hod carrier, cop and magistrate.
From Time Magazine Archive
To each, the chief warder would hod his head and simply say, “Ja, ja,” and then, “Next!”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
The Librarians When a town named Feud hods a Civil War reenactment they are plagued by ghosts in this new episode.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2018
They strain under a load, balanced in yoke-like hods, to deliver freshly-moulded bricks to the furnace.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2014
He wasn't much good at school – he says he might have been a bit dyslexic, or just a bit thick – and left at 15 to carry hods on a building site.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2010
Laborers in nearby Brasilia threw aside their hods and streamed down the highway; so did lawyers, senators, civil servants, housewives and doctors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Till now all the bricks even for a high building were carried up to the mason in hods.
From Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy by Leacock, Stephen
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