hod carrier
- noun
- /hɒd ˈkɛrɪər/
- Specialized
:
transportista
- As a hod carrier, he was responsible for delivering supplies to the masons, ensuring they had everything they needed on the job site.
Examples
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During the construction of the new school, the hod carrier transported bricks and mortar to the bricklayers working on the walls.
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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) -
Many skilled trades rely heavily on the hard work of a hod carrier, who plays a vital role in assisting masons with their building projects.
Synonyms
238
2.9
A person or company that delivers letters and packages
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4.1
A person or company that moves goods by truck on roads
A man who carries bricks and other building materials to bricklayers on a building site
To carry bags or equipment for other people, often as paid help
A worker who lifts and moves heavy goods at a port
How Physical
Surface Forms
Morphology
hod + carrier
The meaning is directly compositional: 'hod' (a trough-shaped container for bricks or mortar) combined with 'carrier' (one who carries) yields a person who carries a hod. The agentive formation is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the occupational meaning.
Etymology
Hod carrier comes from the long wooden tray called a hod that builders put bricks on and carried on their shoulder, and the word carrier simply means someone who carries things. So a hod carrier is 'a worker who carries bricks and mortar at a building site'.