Hod

Quick meaning: Hod is a verb meaning (intransitive, Scotland, obsolete) To bob up and down on horseback, as an inexperienced rider may do; to jog.

Meaning

(intransitive, Scotland, obsolete) To bob up and down on horseback, as an inexperienced rider may do; to jog.

More Meanings

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. (horse racing) A bookmaker's bag.
5. (originally British, 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.

Example Sentences

Oiſeau: […] a Hodd; the Tray vvherein Maſons, &c, carrie their Mortar.

They hodded off the furniture, moth-eaten, cracked, and old, / For iron old the swords and helms and dish-covers they sold; […]

Hoddin gray, a coarse grey woollen cloth, called "hoddin" from country people wearing it, who "hodded," that is, jogged along on carthorses.

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.

Word Forms

• hods
• hodding
• hodded

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hood, scuttle, hud, hove, hoddle, bobble.

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