hodman
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From the Irish reaper or hodman to the chief justice or the minister of state, nearly all the work of society is remunerated by day wages or fixed salaries.
From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Nordhoff, Charles
It was not a vicious wrath, rather a good-humoured wrath; but it impressed the hodman.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold
After four days new red bricks began to arrive, carried by a quite guiltless hodman who had not visited the house before.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold
As the carpentering business was not going well he would turn day-laborer, be a mason's hodman, ditcher, break stones on the road.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 by Maupassant, Guy de
So that we cannot do better than give a few samples thereof, at least samples decent enough for modern readers, and let us begin, not with a hodman, but with Jonson himself.
From Plays and Puritans by Kingsley, Charles
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