hod

Meanings

Verb

• To bob up and down on horseback; jog.

Noun

• A three-sided box for carrying bricks or other construction materials, often mortar. It bears a long handle and is carried over the shoulder.
• A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one designed to facilitate loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox.
• A pewterer's blowpipe.
• A bookmaker's bag.

Origin

• Etymology uncertain, but apparently related to Scots hod, Scots houd, howd. Probably all from Old English hūdenian ("to shake, sway, rock back and forth"), from Proto-Germanic *hud- ("to shake"). Related to Scots hodder, Low German hūdern. Compare also hoddle.
• Alteration of Middle English hott ("pannier"), from Old French hotte, from Frankish *hotta ("basket").