hod carrier
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Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]hod carrier (plural hod carriers)
- A bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod.
- 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:
- 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!
Translations
[edit]a bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod
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