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Hodder

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An English surname originating as an occupation, for the trade name hodder
  2. 2
    A river in Lancashire, England, tributary to the Ribble.
Noun
  1. 1
    A coal miner who hauls hods from the workface obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

(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”).

Etymology 2

From hod + -er.

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