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Definition of Hod carrier
1. Noun. A laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers.
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
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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