A man who carries on his shoulder the hod supplying builders with mortar (which he also prepares), bricks, or stones; a ‘bricklayer's labourer’…
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| 释义 | society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builder of walls > bricklayer > assistant (6) hodman1587 A man who carries on his shoulder the hod supplying builders with mortar (which he also prepares), bricks, or stones; a ‘bricklayer's labourer’… hod-carrier1771 = hodman, n. cad1836 An assistant or confederate of a lower grade, as a bricklayer's labourer (dialect); a familiar, ‘chum’. paddy1856 colloquial. A bricklayer's or builder's labourer or assistant. hodsman1863 Rare variant of hodman, n.; in quot. 1863 figurative. Subcategories:— woman (1) |
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