Meanings
plural hod carriers
- A bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod.
1 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod.
Origin
Translations
Dutch opperman
- oppermana bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod
German Ziegelträger, Bauhandlanger
- Ziegelträgera bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod
- Bauhandlangera bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod
- Handlangera bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod
- Bauhilfsarbeitera bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod
Icelandic pomocnik murarza
- pomocnik murarzaa bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod
Irish fear adaic
- fear adaica bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod
Portuguese servente de pedreiro, ajudante de pedreiro
- servente de pedreiroa bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod
- ajudante de pedreiroa bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod
Romanian salahor
- salahora bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod
Cite this entry
hod carrier. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hod%20carrier
“hod carrier.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hod%20carrier. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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