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A laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers
Answer for the clue "A laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers ", 6 letters:
hodman
Word definitions for hodman in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hodman \Hod"man\, n.; pl. Hodmen (?). A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A bricklayer's or mason's laborer who carries bricks, mortar, cement and the like in a hod.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers [syn: hod carrier ]
Usage examples of hodman.
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.
The question of the war with England is debated by every native pavior and hodman of New York.
And he painted like a whitewasher, mixing his colours as a hodman mixes his mortar, and managing to make the clearest and brightest of them quite muddy.