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hodman [hod-muh n] ExamplesWord Origin noun, plural hod·men.
Origin of hodman First recorded in 1580–90; hod + man1 Examples from the Web for hodman Historical Examples of hodman
Day after day Steinbock came home, evidently tired, complaining of this “hodman’s work” and his own physical weakness.
Honore de Balzac
There is no scaffolding, no hodman with bricks and mortar; the solid stone walls seem to grow up in the most hopeless confusion.
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.
Emile Zola
British Dictionary definitions for hodman hodman noun plural -men
- British another name for a hod carrier