Definitions for hods

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Spelling: [hod]
IPA: /hɒd/

Hods is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in hods (dhos).

Definitions for hods

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 of hods

1565-75; perhaps later variant of Middle English hot basket for carrying earth

Examples for hods

They used their backs as hods to carry mud, clasping their hands low down behind them and letting their companions load them up.

Up on the plains old hods he got and there his trouble began.

From the days of the Pharaohs they had carried their bricks and their mortar in hods on their heads or on their shoulders.

Success began to look not like an aurora, but like a solid structure built of bricks that must be carried in hods.

Hif this gentleman is really Mr. Rankin, or hif ee is not, its hol the same—wots the hods?

Were going to keep right on fillin the hods, and if anybody forgets when its his turn, Im goin to beat him on the bean.

Nearer were men climbing up ladders with hods on their shoulders.

They built that big new Kaiserbad building: mixed the mortar, carried the hods, and laid the stone.

Word Value for hods
Scrable

8

Words with friends

7

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