hod
noun
a portable trough for carrying mortar, bricks, etc., fixed crosswise on top of a pole and carried on the shoulder.
hods
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pluralof hod.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
As a young boy, he went to work carrying hods for his brother, a brick contractor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Men and children passed him with lowered heads and backs bent beneath hods of white-wood, containing provisions for some villa or pension, the balconies of which could be distinguished on the slopes.
From Tartarin On The Alps by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
