hodverb詞源 1/hɒd/

• 1

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

  • To have caught young wild ducks—a dozen— / So we "hodded" them in a hat to town, / To get them "pot-luck"—at least a "shake down," / With some tame, domestic cousin.
  • They hodded off the furniture, moth-eaten, cracked, and old, / For iron old the swords and helms and dish-covers they sold; […]

hodnoun詞源 2/hɒd/

• 1

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

  • Oiſeau: […] a Hodd; the Tray vvherein Maſons, &c, carrie their Mortar.
  • And then Arthur and I, we soon drew our hods / And we scarce gave them time for to draw their own blades / When a trusty shillelagh came over their heads / And bade them take that as fair warning.
• 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. …
• 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.
• 4

  hobbieshorse-racinghorseracingA 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.
• 5

  dialectalA receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one shaped like a bucket which is designed for loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox.

  • […] Fanny, forgetful of her young-ladyism and her sixteen years, had boxed Tom's ears, and Tom, resenting the insult, had forcibly seated her in the coal-hod, where he held her with one hand while he returned the compliment with the other.
  • My friend comes home and finds his dressing-gown and slippers in front of the fire. He is tired and cross, and doesn't want to sling ashes nor bang a coal-hod. But the sight of the fire makes him feel better at once, and if there be no fire, there are no ashes.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• head of department
• Höðr