HOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hod mean? 

• HOD (noun)
  The noun HOD has 1 sense:

1. an open box attached to a long pole handle; bricks or mortar are carried on the shoulder

  Familiarity information: HOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An open box attached to a long pole handle; bricks or mortar are carried on the shoulder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hod" is a kind of...):

box (a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid)

 Context examples 

When she was a baby, Jo had accidently dropped her into the coal hod, and Amy insisted that the fall had ruined her nose forever.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The flights are very long in this tall house, and as I stood waiting at the head of the third one for a little servant girl to lumber up, I saw a gentleman come along behind her, take the heavy hod of coal out of her hand, carry it all the way up, put it down at a door near by, and walk away, saying, with a kind nod and a foreign accent, It goes better so.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)