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hod carrier

hod carrier noun: a bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod.

Noun

hod carrier (plural hod carriers)

  1. A bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod.
    • I shall have my eye punched out by a total abstinence fist, or my nose broken by Sobriety's flagstaff, or my skull fractured by a temperate shillelagh! Yes; I shall be brained by yonder red-headed hod-carrier, with the muddy knees,—who, for all his uproarious support of the element, would as soon...1844 January, Thomas Hood, “Mrs. Burrage. A Temperance Romance.”, in Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany, volume I, number I, London: […] H. Renshaw, […], →OCLC, chapter II, page 45
    Synonyms:
    hoddie, hodman

Synonyms of hod carrier

Forms of hod carrier

pluralhod carriers

Origin of hod carrier

Compound of hod + carrier.

Questions about hod carrier

What does hod carrier mean?
Hod carrier means a bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod.
What part of speech is hod carrier?
Hod carrier is a noun.
What is the plural of hod carrier?
The plural of hod carrier is hod carriers.

Words near hod carrier in the dictionary

  1. Hocutt
  2. Hocutts
  3. hod
  4. hod boy
  5. hod boys
  6. hod carrier
  7. hod carriers
  8. hod-
  9. Hoda
  10. hodad
  11. hodaddies

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