n. A bricklayer's or mason's laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A man who carries a hod; a hod-carrier.
n. A young scholar admitted from Westminster School to be student in Christ-church College in Oxford.
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n. a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers
Word Usage
"And his dress, in her opinion, was enough to frighten a hodman, of a scavenger of the roads, instead of the decent suit of kersey, or of Sabbath doeskins, such as had won the respect and reverence of his fellow-townsmen."