Definition of Hod carrier

1. Noun. A laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers.

Exact synonyms: Hodman
Generic synonyms: Jack, Laborer, Labourer, Manual Laborer

Definition of Hod carrier

1. Noun. A bricklayer's labourer who carries bricks (in a hod), mortar, cement and the like. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hod Carrier

hockling
hocks
hockshop
hockshops
hocus
hocus-pocus
hocus pocus
hocused
hocuses
hocusing
hocuspocus
hocussed
hocusses
hocussing
hod
hod carrier (current term)
hod carriers
hodad
hodaddies
hodaddy
hodads
hodag
hodags
hodded
hodden
hoddengray
hoddens
hoddie
hoddies
hoddin

Literary usage of Hod carrier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Labor in Europe and America by Samuel Gompers (1910)
"THE BUDAPEST HOD-CARRIER AND HER FELLOW- LABORERS BUDAPEST, Hungary, August 15, 1909. ... For instance, there is the Budapest hod-carrier. ..."

2. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"LEWIS E. CARR THE LAWYER AND THE hod carrier [Speech of Lewis E. Carr at the annual banquet of the New York State Bar Association, Albany, NY, January 17, ..."

3. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"The question " Does it pay to Snoke," is introduced by the study of a hard-working and venerable hod-carrier enoying his noon-tide smoke. ..."

4. Smoking and Drinking by James Parton (1868)
"with his lot and the hod-carrier who means to get into bricklaying next spring. ... If it does not pay this hod-carrier to smoke, it pays no man. ..."

5. Modern Socialism by Charles Henry Vail (1897)
"Thus, if the hod-carrier gets one dollar per day and the carpenter three dollars, it is evident that each hour of the carpenter's labor represents three ..."

6. The Aristocracy of Health: A Study of Physical Culture, Our Favorite Poisons by Mary Foote Henderson (1906)
"THE STOKY OF A HOD-CARRIER From James Parton's "Smokin/j and Drinking" illustrating two new phases of smoking: — "I have sometimes thought," says Mr. Parton ..."

7. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1875)
"The hod-carrier brought but a small hod full, and put it down easy. ... If the hod-carrier had thrown the mortar down violently, it might have started the ..."

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