hodman

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.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

They walk circumspectly, lest a baker, sweep, or hodman, stumbling against the coat, may deprive its wearer of what to him represents so much ready money.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

Monk Grange, the hamlet to which it geographically belonged -- a place as bleak and bare as itself, and which seemed to have been flung against the fell-foot as if a brick-layer's hodman had pitched the hovels at haphazard anyhow -- was two good miles away, and the market-town, to be got at only by crossing a dangerous moor, was nine miles off -- as far as Sherrington from North Aston.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

During a dust-storm everybody has the appearance of a toiling hodman.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

Fancy a one-armed and legless hodman ascending the under side of a ladder to the roof, and reflect on the conveniences of gymnastic habits.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various

Hugh Miller, when working as a stone-mason near Edinburgh, was served by a hodman, who was one of the numerous claimants for the earldom of Crauford -- all that was wanted to establish his claim being a missing marriage certificate; and while the work was going on, the cry resounded from the walls many times in the day, of "John, Yearl Crauford, bring us another hod o 'lime."

How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon

Your man _did_ come here -- drunk as Davy's sow on a frosty night -- came a-purpose to mock me -- stuck his head out of the door an 'called me a crucified hodman.

Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

Your man _did_ come here -- drunk as Davy's sow on a frosty night -- came a-purpose to mock me -- stuck his head out of the door an 'called me a crucified hodman.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

Your man DID come here -- drunk as Davy's sow on a frosty night -- came a-purpose to mock me -- stuck his head out of the door an 'called me a crucified hodman.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

It was my good fortune to have helped as a hodman in the study of these creatures, with a view to a Text-book we were to have written conjointly, and as I realise what he was intending to make out of the dry facts, I am filled with grief at the thought of what we must have lost.

The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900