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hod

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–noun
1. a portable trough for carrying mortar, bricks, etc., fixed crosswise on top of a pole and carried on the shoulder.
2. a coal scuttle.
Origin:
1565–75; perh. later var. of ME hot basket for carrying earth
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hod   (hŏd)   
n.  

  1. A trough carried over the shoulder for transporting loads, as of bricks or mortar.

  2. A coal scuttle.


[Perhaps alteration of dialectal hot, from Middle English, pannier, from Old French hotte, of Germanic origin.]
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hod 
1573, alteration of M.E. hott (c.1300), from O.Fr. hotte "basket to carry on the back," apparently from Frank. *hotta (cf. M.H.G. hotze "cradle"), alt. by M.Du. hodde "basket."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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