hodman

[ hod-muhn ]

/ ˈhɒd mən /

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noun, plural hod·men.

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Origin of hodman

First recorded in 1580–90; hod + man

Words nearby hodman

Hodgenville, hodgepodge, Hodges, Hodgkin, Hodgkin's disease, hodman, Hódmezővásárhely, hodograph, hodometer, hodophobia, hodoscope

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How to use hodman in a sentence

There is no scaffolding, no hodman with bricks and mortar; the solid stone walls seem to grow up in the most hopeless confusion.
Cities of the Dawn|J. Ewing Ritchie
As the carpentering business was not going well he would turn day-laborer, be a mason's hodman, ditcher, break stones on the road.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume II (of 8)|Guy de Maupassant
The question of the war with England is debated by every native paviour and hodman of New York.
North America, Volume I (of 2)|Anthony Trollope
He expressed at each recurring crisis his old regret at not being some mason's hodman.
His Masterpiece|Emile Zola

During a dust-storm everybody has the appearance of a toiling hodman.
Khartoum Campaign, 1898|Bennet Burleigh

British Dictionary definitions for hodman

hodman

/ (ˈhɒdmən) /

noun plural -men

British another name for a hod carrier

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