hod carrier

noun

: a laborer employed in carrying supplies to bricklayers, stonemasons, cement finishers, or plasterers on the job

Examples of hod carrier in a Sentence

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During the 1800s, blacks held a variety of jobs, including barber, bartender, hotel bell boy, carriage driver, hod carrier, janitor, laborer, railway postal clerk and undertaker. Marylynne Pitz, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2020 Andy was a hod carrier, charged with carrying supplies to bricklayers. Elizabeth Depompei, Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2020 Like the West Oak Lane hod carrier who in 1925 whacked his coworker with a bundle of bricks, knocking him through a hole in a roof, 12 feet to the ground below, and into the hereafter. Mike Newall, Philly.com, 22 June 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1771, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hod carrier was in 1771

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“Hod carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hod%20carrier. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.

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