He was very bitter against the world, and more especially against Thomas Webb, late of hodman, Pelt and Company, "haberdashers to H. H. the Duke of" and so forth and so on.
"The Voice in the Fog"
Harold MacGrath
The English carpenter hires a native "boy" to carry his bag of tools for him; the English bricklayer has a native hodman to hand the bricks to him, which he proceeds to set; the Cornish or Australian miner directs the excavation of the seam and fixes the fuse which explodes the dynamite, but the work with the pickaxe is done by the Kafir.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce
"Are you only a hodman in this book-yard, then?
"An Ocean Tramp"
William McFee
