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
Her smile is sweet as roses, An' sweeter far to me, An' praad she hods her heead up, As lass o' heigh degree.
From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Frederic William Moorman
