n. A broad, shallow basket.n. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.verb-intransitive. To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle.n. A quick pace; a short run.n. A small opening in an outside wall or covering, furnished with a lid.n. A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship.n. An opening in the roof of a house, with a lid.n. The lid or door which covers or closes an opening in a roof, wall, or the like.v. To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.v. To sink by making holes through the bottom of.v. To defeat, frustrate, abandon, or cause to be abandoned; -- of plans, projects, actions, hopes.