hod
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9.9
- noun
- /hɒd/
- Specialized
:
carretilla
- She balanced the heavy hod of mortar while walking up the stairs at the job site.
- hod carrier
Examples
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Every hod in the crew was filled with materials needed to complete the wall.
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The construction worker lifted the hod filled with bricks to his shoulder.
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She's just the hod carrier.
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It didn't seem unusual that a hod carrier would prize his books, his Greek classics, and sweeping histories.
Fiction book (1994) -
My father worked as a hod carrier until he was seventy, a job that condemned him through all those years to being eternally strong and eternally exhausted.
Fiction book (1994) -
A bricklayer, hod carder, chauffeur, tailor, and barber who had resided there in 1910 had been replaced by two taxi drivers, two auto mechanics, and a musician.
Academic text (1998) -
He couldn't help observing that the woman's hips looked slight, boyish, and the husband, though not tall, bordered on being musclebound; he had the physique of a hod carrier.
Fiction book (1995)
Compounds
- Specialized
A person who carries bricks and mortar to bricklayers at a building site
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Etymology
Hod comes from an old word for a carrying 'basket', similar to the French hotte. Think of it as a 'basket on a pole' that a builder rests on the shoulder to carry bricks, which is why a hod holds bricks or mortar.