word of the day: hod

The word of the day is hod:

 

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.

perhaps later variant of Middle English hot basket for carrying earth (dictionary.com)

"Behind him, a tangle of bodies

Made out of plaster, which plasterers call mud.
The apprentice hurries with a hod of mud."

 - Robert Pinsky, "Genesis According to George Segal", 15 December 2014 The New Yorker