Hod

Hod: A hod is a three-sided box with a long handle. Hods most often appear in connection with brick laying where the hod might carry bricks or mortar.

My hod slipped from my grasp and rolled over the ground, spilling the contents; the two eggs I had wrapped in a cabbage had broken and were leaking onto the cover of Cousin Pons.

A Book for Today: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie