Definition of "hod-carrier" [hod-carrier]

• A laborer who carries bricks and mortar in a hod. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "If we are imbued with the spirit of the architect and not of the hod-carrier, we will hope sweetly for the work."
• "One of the officers thought it unavoidable that troops would abandon the “uniformity of the clean, smart, soldier, and substitute, in his stead, the look of the slovenly, undisciplined wood-hewer, sand-digger, and hod-carrier.”"
• "In the run-up to 1984 his regime frequently included two rows – morning and evening – sandwiched between a day's work as a hod-carrier."