Dictionary

hod carrier en · NOUN

Etymology

Compound of hod + carrier.

Meanings

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 choked as drink Boyne Water! 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:

Forms

Synonyms

hodman · hoddie

Translations (10)

ro salahor (a bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod) · de Handlanger (a bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod) · pt servente de pedreiro (a bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod) · de Bauhilfsarbeiter (a bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod) · pt ajudante de pedreiro (a bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod) · ga fear adaic (a bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod) · de Bauhandlanger (a bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod) · nl opperman (a bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod) · is pomocnik murarza (a bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod) · de Ziegelträger (a bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod)