hod
IPA: hˈɑd
noun
- A three-sided box mounted on a pole for carrying bricks, mortar, or other construction materials over the shoulder.
- The amount of material held by a hod (sense 1); a hodful.
- A blowpipe used by a pewterer.
- (horse racing) A bookmaker's bag.
- (originally Britain, dialectal and US) A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one shaped like a bucket which is designed for loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox.
- Alternative form of Höðr [(Norse mythology) The blind son of the Norse gods Odin and Frigg, whom Loki tricked into shooting Baldur with a mistletoe arrow.]
- Abbreviation of head of department.
verb
- (intransitive, Scotland, obsolete) To bob up and down on horseback, as an inexperienced rider may do; to jog.
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Examples of "hod" in Sentences
- We hod expected better results wuth the new propeller.
- [Greek: All 'hod' anêr ethelei peri pantôn emmenai allôn,
- When we got tull sea, I found he hod no receipt for the cable.
- Every man laying brick on this building was white, every man carrying a hod was a negro.
- Here we received orders to attack a "hod" named Abu Hamrah, which lay between us and Katia.
- It is, moreover, a climbing animal, and may sometimes be seen ascending a ladder laden with a hod of bricks.
- There are issues that she claims to be raising that don't seem to match what she seems to hod dear; the various ideas she claims to espouse.
- Karl or Caspar might have rendered his coming down unnecessary, as either could have carried so light a "hod" up the ladder; but there was good reason why Ossaroo should make the descent -- that was, to rest and refresh himself.
- Chicago had always been the storm-centre of the conflict between labor and capital, a city of street-battles and violent death, with a class-conscious capitalist organization and a class-conscious workman organization, where, in the old days, the very school-teachers were formed into labor unions and affiliated with the hod-carriers and brick-layers in the American
- Say what you like about the press - and, sure, we may have "hod" difficulty coming up with original puns during what Glenn would undoubtedly call his sacking situation - we are mindful of our duty to explain ourselves to the public, and if that has to take place in a restaurant where, according to the internet, "the fine wine list has an excellent selection of wines from the £25 to £325 price range", so be it.
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