Hod vs. Rod
Hodverb
To bob up and down on horseback; jog.
Hodnoun
A three-sided box for carrying bricks or other construction materials, often mortar. It bears a long handle and is carried over the shoulder.
Hodnoun
A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one designed to facilitate loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox.
Hodnoun
A pewterer's blowpipe.
Hodnoun
A kind of wooden tray with a handle, having V-shaped trough, made of wood or metal, attached to a long handle and usually carried over the shoulder; it is a tool used by construction workers for carrying bricks or mortar.
Hodnoun
A utensil for holding coal; a coal scuttle.
Hodnoun
an open box attached to a long pole handle; bricks or mortar are carried on the shoulder
Rodnoun
A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
Rodnoun
A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
Rodnoun
(fishing) A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
Rodnoun
A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
Rodnoun
An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.
Rodnoun
A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.
Rodnoun
(archaic) A unit of length equal to 1 pole, a perch, ¼ chain, 5½ yards, 16½ feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
Rodnoun
An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern (US) engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5½ yards.
Rodnoun
(archaic) A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.
Rodnoun
A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a drive-shaft.
Rodnoun
(anatomy) Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
Rodnoun
(biology) Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
Rodnoun
(chemistry) A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 1/8 to 1/4 inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
Rodnoun
(slang) A pistol; a gun.
Rodnoun
A penis.
Rodnoun
(slang) A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.
Rodnoun
(ufology) A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
Rodnoun
(mathematics) A Cuisenaire rod.
Rodnoun
(rail transport) A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.
Rodverb
(construction) To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
Rodverb
To penetrate sexually.
Rodverb
(slang) To hot rod.
Rodnoun
A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
Rodnoun
A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
Rodnoun
A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; - called also perch, and pole.
Rodnoun
a linear measure of 16.5 feet
Rodnoun
a long thin implement made of metal or wood
Rodnoun
any rod-shaped bacterium
Rodnoun
a square rod of land
Rodnoun
visual receptor cell sensitive to dim light
Rodnoun
a gangster's pistol
