Hod carrier
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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!"
- 2 a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers wordnet
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More examples"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!"
Etymology
Compound of hod + carrier.