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hod carriers

hod carriers is the plural of hod carrier.

Meaning of hod carrier

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

Questions about hod carriers

What is hod carriers the plural of?
Hod carriers is the plural of hod carrier.

Words near hod carriers in the dictionary

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

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