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Definition of hod in English: hodnoun hɒdhɑd 1A builder's V-shaped open trough on a pole, used for carrying bricks and other building materials. Example sentencesExamples - It was like dropping an entire hod of bricks that you've been carrying with you over your shoulder everywhere since you were born.
- In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;
- I've never felt out of place, having picked up a trowel or carried a hod for a living.
- Anything just so I don't have to go back on the hod and trowel again!
- A year later Jones left school with no qualifications and drifted into washing pots and pans, hod carrying, and boozing.
- 1.1 A coal scuttle.
Example sentencesExamples - The pattern is similar to one pictured on a coal hod in the Mersereau catalogue and referred to as the ‘Japanese pattern.’
- Take care of your ash with a coal hod, ash bucket and coal shovel.
- Relive the colonial past of America with a brass coal hod.
Origin Late 16th century: variant of northern English dialect hot 'a basket for carrying earth', from Old French hotte 'pannier', probably of Germanic origin. Rhymes bod, clod, cod, god, mod, nod, od, odd, plod, pod, prod, quad, quod, scrod, shod, squad, tod, Todd, trod, wad Definition of hod in US English: hodnounhɑdhäd 1A builder's V-shaped open trough on a pole, used for carrying bricks and other building materials. Example sentencesExamples - In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers;
- Anything just so I don't have to go back on the hod and trowel again!
- It was like dropping an entire hod of bricks that you've been carrying with you over your shoulder everywhere since you were born.
- I've never felt out of place, having picked up a trowel or carried a hod for a living.
- A year later Jones left school with no qualifications and drifted into washing pots and pans, hod carrying, and boozing.
- 1.1 A coal scuttle.
Example sentencesExamples - Relive the colonial past of America with a brass coal hod.
- Take care of your ash with a coal hod, ash bucket and coal shovel.
- The pattern is similar to one pictured on a coal hod in the Mersereau catalogue and referred to as the ‘Japanese pattern.’
Origin Late 16th century: variant of northern English dialect hot ‘a basket for carrying earth’, from Old French hotte ‘pannier’, probably of Germanic origin. |