hod carrier

Compound of hod +‎ carrier.

hod carrier (plural hod carriers)

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

   Synonyms: hoddie, hodman

   • 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!

• Richard Roe