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单词 hod carrier
释义

hod carrier

noun

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web 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

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