English Dictionary

hod

/hɒd/

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.

The hod of the department is responsible for managing the staff.

意味（1）

A three-sided box mounted on a pole for carrying bricks, mortar, or other construction materials over the shoulder.

A fork and a hooke, to be tampring in claie, / a lath hammer, trowel, a hod, or a traie.

意味（2）

The amount of material held by a hod (sense 1); a hodful.

[T]he women do the hardest work—carry hods of mortar, unload vessels, drive oxen, &c. …

意味（3）

A blowpipe used by a pewterer.

The pewterers employ a very peculiar modification of the blowpipe, which may be called the hot-air blast, and the names for which apparatus are no less peculiar; a fig. 313, being called the hod, and b, the gentleman. The first is a common cast-iron pot with a close cover, containing ignited charcoal; two nozzles lead into and from it, to allow the passage of a stream of air, through the pipe c, from bellows worked by the foot.

意味（4）

(horse racing) A bookmaker's bag.

'Clerking' is perhaps the most difficult and most admired job on a racecourse. The next time you see a bookmaker at his hod, waving his ticket-filled hands, shouting the odds, look to his left, just back a bit—out of the limelight. The bloke sitting there with his head buried deep in a ledger is the clerk.

意味（5）

(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.

Coordinate term: scuttle