hodman

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

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.

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

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