hod

Meaning

Noun

1. A three-sided box mounted on a pole for carrying bricks, mortar, or other construction materials over the shoulder.
2. The amount of material held by a hod (sense 1); a hodful.
3. A blowpipe used by a pewterer.
4. A bookmaker's bag.
5. 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.

Verb

To bob up and down on horseback, as an inexperienced rider may do; to jog.

Synonyms

basket

🧺

bucket

🪣

ears

👂

pan

scuttle

tray

trough

trug

washtub

dolly-tub

Pronounced as (IPA)

/hɒd/

Etymology

Probably an alteration of hot (“(Northern England, Scotland) large basket for carrying earth, etc.”), from Middle English hott, hote, hotte (“large basket or pannier for carrying earth, etc.; unit of measure for grain; hut or shed (perhaps originally of wattlework); lump of dirt (?)”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman and Old French hote, hotte (“large basket carried on the back”) (modern French hotte (“carrying basket”)), from Frankish *hotta (“basket”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *hud- (“to shake”) (see further at etymology 1), ultimately an onomatopoeia of the swaying movement of such a basket (compare Middle Dutch hotten (“to jolt; shake”)).
cognates
* German Hotte (“wooden basket carried on the back; (specifically) basket for collecting grapes from a vineyard”) (Rhineland, Swabia), Hutte (“basket for collecting grapes from a vineyard”) (Alsace, Switzerland)
* Late Latin hotta, hottus (“hod”)