hod carrier

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hod carrier

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Compound of hod + carrier.

noun 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 be

    Similar: hoddie, hodman

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

Portuguêsservente de pedreiro, ajudante de pedreiro
DeutschZiegelträger, Bauhandlanger, Handlanger, Bauhilfsarbeiter
Românăsalahor

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@misc{hod_carrier_2026,
  title = {hod carrier},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hod%20carrier},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}