Definitions for hodman

hodman hod·man

Spelling: [hod-muh n]
IPA: /ˈhɒd mən/

Hodman is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in hodman (adhmno).

Definitions for hodman

noun

  1. hod carrier.

Origin of hodman

First recorded in 1580-90; hod + man1

Examples for hodman

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 question of the war with England is debated by every native paviour and hodman of New York.

There is no scaffolding, no hodman with bricks and mortar; the solid stone walls seem to grow up in the most hopeless confusion.

Day after day Steinbock came home, evidently tired, complaining of this "hodman's work" and his own physical weakness.

Deal with the nostril as you will; I am but a hodman who bears the bricks, you are the heaven-born architect.

He expressed at each recurring crisis his old regret at not being some mason's hodman.

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