Definitions
Covering for the head, or a protective cover over something.
Word origin
From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-West Germanic *hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to cover”).
Used in a sentence
“Like many captains, I was just as glad to leave engineering to the engineers. Looking under the ship's hood wasn't what interested me.”
“I never see the pilot percolating coffee or the attendant with a screwdriver under the airplane's hood. Why? Because we all have something we are good at, and we are expected to do that one thing well.”
“But for deep and narrow vessels you must line your hooden-ends wider to get up faster, and consequently the lower ends of the after-hoods will come round, […]”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Cover for the head”4 letters
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