Thesaurus results for HOD

hod

noun

Definition of hod

as in jug

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Recent Examples of hod Employer Job title Member grade Alma mater So, later that year, the underweight teen got a job on a construction site carrying heavy loads of building materials in a hod, a three-sided wooden trough. — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026 When the boss brings up a subject, like the possibility of recession, subordinates will simply nod their hods. — Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025 For Alabama, the Tide remains at 25 commitments with a strong hod on the top class. — Nick Alvarez | [email protected], al, 14 Dec. 2022 This traditional harvest basket, also known as a hod, is used to hose off produce before bringing it inside. — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 26 Oct. 2022 After a red-hod start in the first half, The Pelicans (27-22) once again had their night spoiled by a third-quarter lull that allowed the Clippers to come back from a double-digit deficit. — William Guillory, NOLA.com, 30 Jan. 2018

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Noun

Before my arrival, the Belâawane’s caravan comprised 200 goats, two dogs to help herd the goats, two chickens for eggs, and three donkeys to transport the chickens, tea kettles, jugs for water, blankets, and other food and camp supplies.

— Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Oct. 2026
People were milling about in flip-flops, holding water jugs, smoking cigarettes—little to do, nowhere to go.

— Ben Taub, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of jug

Noun

Like Resident Evil, Whalefall gives its protagonist just an hour to accomplish his goal, which in this case means escaping the whale’s innards before his oxygen tank runs dry.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
Three dead roaches were also spotted near the hot water tank.

— Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of tank

Noun

But the film most shoots the moon on the performance of Jeremy Strong, whose Zuckerberg is what would happen if The Truman Show’s Christof fell in a vat of acid and emerged as a cross between The Joker and Sheldon Cooper.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
Any oakiness is put there with chips dumped into steel vats and left to soak.

— Peter Hahn, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of vat

Noun

Leti Muñoz keeps a glass jar of sand and a shell from Utah Beach, France, on her ofrenda.

— Jenn Sinrich, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026
According to the arrest affidavit police obtained a search warrant and found a glass jar, aluminum powder, black iron oxide and a pipe that was empty at the time.

— Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of jar

Noun

After helping one of the Dutchmen lug a keg of liquor to the game, Rip drinks several flagons, passes out, and wakes up two decades later.

— John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
Under a vaulted ceiling, academics, museum workers, and the octopus-curious passed around a flagon of Kraken Rum.

— Pearse Anderson, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2023

Definition of flagon

Noun

While some jumped in the creek as a sort of cold plunge, others warmed up in the hot tub, and watched the creek rushing past faster than the day before thanks to the rainfall.

— Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2026
Wince’s advice is to purchase spackle or a small tub of drywall compound and fill the holes and cracks with that.

— Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 15 Oct. 2026