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Hod vs Hof - What's the difference?

hod | hof |

As nouns the difference between hod and hof

is that hod is a three-sided box for carrying bricks or other construction materials, often mortar. It bears a long handle and is carried over the shoulder while hof is enclosure, court, dwelling, building, house.

As a verb hod

is to bob up and down on horseback; jog.

hod

English

Etymology 1

Etymology uncertain, but apparently related to Scots . Compare also (m).

Verb

(en-verb)
  • (lb) To bob up and down on horseback; jog.

    • Etymology 2

    Alteration of (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A three-sided box for carrying bricks or other construction materials, often mortar. It bears a long handle and is carried over the shoulder.
  • A receptacle for carrying coal.
    • Related terms
    * hod carrier

    Anagrams

    * English three-letter words ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

  • walk, gait
  • pace

    • Declension

    {{sh-decl-noun , h?d, h?dovi , h?da, h?d?v? , h?du, h?dovima , h?d, h?dove , h?de, h?dovi , h?du, h?dovima , h?dom, h?dovima }} ----

    hof

    English

    Etymology 1

    A loan from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Enclosure, court, dwelling, building, house.
  • * 1993 May, William, Trevor, Jake's Castle'', in ''Harper's Magazine :
    • Ulrike lived in a farm hof , and all around me were the dark blank fields punctuated by a few disparate lights.
  • * 2009 , Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds (New York: Black Cat, 1st edition):
    • Like many old houses, this one had a front section, where I lived, and at the back an interior courtyard, the Hof , enclosed on all three sides by more apartments.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Neopaganism) Template, sanctuary, hall.
  • * 1996 for each ten churches burned to ashes, one heathen hof is avenged'' Varg Vikernes, cited after Gardell, ''Gods of the Blood , 2003, p. 307.
  • * 2005 Asatruarfelagid lacks a central religious temple, or ''hof'' in Icelandic. Constructing a hof has been high on the members' wish list for many years Michael Strmiska, Modern Paganism In World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, p. 170.
  • * 2006' ''A '''Hof dedicated to the worship of the Aesir and the Vanir idhavellihof.org

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) . Compare howff ("tavern").

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Korean-style bar or pub.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 4, Adam B. Ellick, In Queens: A Melting Pot, and a Closed Book, New York Times citation
    • , passage=To the south are Korean spas, Korean barbecue joints and hofs , or Korean pubs. }}

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