hod carrier

Definition

A bricklayer’s or mason’s laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod.

Etymology

Compound of hod + carrier.

Example Sentences

• "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!"