hod
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When she was 9, Charlene, her parents and her seven siblings moved to Chicago, where her father worked as a Pullman porter and a hod carrier.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
If you are sitting at a desk, driving a taxi or carrying a hod, stop for a moment and ask: could a robot or machine do this job better?
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2015
Holmes made the headlines that day because he had funded his Olympic effort by working as a hod carrier.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2010
O'Dwyer became successively a coal passer, longshoreman, hod carrier, plasterer's helper, policeman, attorney, magistrate, juvenile-delinquency expert, county judge, district attorney.
From Time Magazine Archive
To each, the chief warder would hod his head and simply say, “Ja, ja,” and then, “Next!”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
The Librarians When a town named Feud hods a Civil War reenactment they are plagued by ghosts in this new episode.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2018
They strain under a load, balanced in yoke-like hods, to deliver freshly-moulded bricks to the furnace.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2014
He wasn't much good at school – he says he might have been a bit dyslexic, or just a bit thick – and left at 15 to carry hods on a building site.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2010
Laborers in nearby Brasilia threw aside their hods and streamed down the highway; so did lawyers, senators, civil servants, housewives and doctors.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hods carried by these girls on their heads were flat, wooden trays, square at each end: once poised on the head, they balanced themselves, and were carried around without a fall.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
