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▪ I. hod, n.|hɒd|
[Not in evidence before 16th c.: app. a modification of hot n.1 in same sense: see esp. quot. 1300 there.]
1. An open receptacle for carrying mortar, and sometimes bricks or stones, to supply builders at work; also the quantity carried in it, a hodful.
Formerly a sort of tray; now, as in quot. 1688.
1573Tusser Husb. xvii. (1878) 37 A lath hammer, trowel, a hod, or a traie. 1611Cotgr., Oiseau..also, a Hodd; the Tray wherein Masons, &c. carrie their Mortar. 1636MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For 4 hodes of lime and sand, j s. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 395/2 The Hod is a kind of three square trough made up at one end and open at the other, haveing a staffe fixed to its bottom. 1800B. Rush in Med. Jrnl. III. 185, I have done but little more than carry the hod to assist in completing part of a fabric. 1848A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850) 297 Ascending a ladder with a hod full of bricks.
2. A receptacle for carrying or holding coal. Formerly dial. and U.S., but now generally applied to a pail-shaped coal-scuttle, having one upper edge prolonged in a scoop-like form, for throwing coal on the fire.
1825, etc. Coal-hod [see coal 16]. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Hod, a trough or scope, made of wood or metal, for carrying coals or cinders. A coal-hod, or cinder-hod. 1870L. M. Alcott Old-fash. Girl ii. 26 Tom, resenting the insult, had forcibly seated her in the coal-hod. 1884Tradesman's Price List, French ‘Repousse’ Coal Hod. Waterloo Coal Hods.
3. (See quot.)
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-Mining, Hod, a cart or sled for conveying coals in the stalls of thin seams.
4. attrib. and Comb. (from 1), as hod bearing, hod-elevator, hod-work; hod-bearer, -carrier = hodman q.v.; hod-woman, a woman acting as a hod-bearer; hod-work, unskilled labour, mere mechanical drudgery.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iii, Till the Hodman is discharged or reduced to *hod-bearing.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 29 May, The *hod-carrier, the low mechanic, the tapster, the publican. 1866A. L. Perry Elem. Pol. Econ. (1873) 95 Why class the brick-maker as a productive laborer, and refuse the epithet to the hod-carrier?
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Hod-elevator, a hoisting device to raise hods loaded with bricks or mortar to the..building.
1891R. H. Busk in N. & Q. 31 Oct. 351/2 Hodmen and *hodwomen always display the former quality.
1837Carlyle Mirabeau in Misc. Ess. (1888) V. 211 To do *hodwork and even skilful handiwork.
Hence ˈhodded a. nonce-wd., bearing a hod; ˈhodful, the quantity that a hod will contain.
1801W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XII. 588 With hodfuls of allusion to familiar national nature. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr. 78 Workmen in elder times would mount a ladder With hodded heads.
▪ II. hod, v. Sc.
[? Onomatopœic.]
intr. To bob up and down in riding; to jog.
1785Burns Holy Fair vii, Here farmers gash, in ridin graith Gaed hoddin by their cotters. 1889Stevenson Master of B. 229 The smoking horses and the hodding post-boy.
▪ III. hod
early ME. f. had, -hood, condition, etc.; dial. f. hold; obs. f. hood n.1 and v. |