hod carrier
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hod carrier
First recorded in 1765–75
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When she was 9, Charlene, her parents and her seven siblings moved to Chicago, where her father worked as a Pullman porter and a hod carrier.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
Holmes made the headlines that day because he had funded his Olympic effort by working as a hod carrier.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2010
In Philadelphia, James C. Mason, who helped build Central High School as a hod carrier in 1894, finally enrolled as a student, at 74.
From Time Magazine Archive
The German Foreign Minister, onetime Wine & Spirits Salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop, went to Rome to design the basis for this arbitration with Benito Mussolini, onetime hod carrier.
From Time Magazine Archive
If a man don’t understand latin now a daze, he kant hardly enjoy the conversashun ov a hod carrier.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
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