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Definition of Hodmen
1. hodman [n] - See also: hodman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hodmen
Literary usage of Hodmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thomas Davis: The Memoirs of an Irish Patriot, 1840-1846 by Charles Gavan Duffy (1890)
"It was a mistake to imagine that the only Irish hodmen in London were those poor
... There were hodmen in Parliament, who fetched and carried all sorts of ..."
2. Short Life of Thomas Davis, 1840-1846 by Charles Gavan Duffy (1896)
"It was a mistake to imagine that the only Irish hodmen in London were those poor
... There were hodmen in Parliament, who fetched and carried all sorts of ..."
3. The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly (1888)
"Suppose now the master- builder were allowed to refer to tue board of conciliation
the simple question as to whether or not the hodmen should work till 2 or ..."
4. A Naturalist of Souls: Studies in Psychography by Gamaliel Bradford (1917)
"He must have hodmen to fetch bricks and mortar. And perhaps the builder, hurried
and overdriven, may set the hodmen to lay a bit of wall here and there, ..."
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