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hod carrier

noun

  1. a mason's assistant whose work is to carry hods of materials to the mason.


hod carrier

noun

  1. a labourer who carries the materials in a hod for a plasterer, bricklayer, etc Also calledhodman
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hod carrier1

First recorded in 1765–75
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Example Sentences

When she was 9, Charlene, her parents and her seven siblings moved to Chicago, where her father worked as a Pullman porter and a hod carrier.

He worked as a coal-bagger and then a hod carrier as a young man to help supplement his family’s income, building formidable upper-body strength.

If a man don’t understand latin now a daze, he kant hardly enjoy the conversashun ov a hod carrier.

At various times he was a hod carrier, a logger in Alaska, a stock clerk, a truck driver, a manager of a hot-sheet motel and a gym instructor.

Holmes made the headlines that day because he had funded his Olympic effort by working as a hod carrier.

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