Hod

• hod: a V-shaped stemmed trough carried over the shoulder to haul bricks, mortar, etc

• s Finnegan's Wake: "And to rise in the world he carried a hod." → "he" is Tim Finnegan

• hard: erect → sexual puns throughout the next few sentences

• hod, cement, and edifices: HCE, in his guise as a builder of cities

• man of hod: Deuteronomy 33:3: "Moses, the man of God"