hod
noun/hɒd/
/hɑːd/
- an open box attached to a pole, used by building workers for carrying bricks on the shoulderTopics Buildingsc2Word Originlate 16th cent.: variant of northern English dialect hot ‘a basket for carrying earth’, from Old French hotte ‘pannier’, probably of Germanic origin.
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