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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
An English surname originating as an occupation, for the trade name hodder
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A river in Lancashire, England, tributary to the Ribble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A coal miner who hauls hods from the workface
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: business, mining
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History
(surname): From Middle English occupational name for a maker of hoods, from Old English hod (“hood”), from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz. :(river): From Brythonic, said to mean "pleasant water," with the second element from Proto-Brythonic *duβr. The first element is uncertain, but compare Welsh hawdd (“easy, prosperous, pleasant”).
From hod + -er.
