labourer vs hod carrier

hod carrier vs labourer

labourer and hod carrier both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
labourer	Yes	No	No	No
hod carrier	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hod carrier is a hyponym of labourer; that is, hod carrier is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than labourer:

labourer: someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
hod carrier: a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers

Other hyponyms of labourer include agricultural laborer, agricultural labourer, bracero, cleaner, day laborer, day labourer, digger, dishwasher, drudge, galley slave, navvy, peon, gandy dancer, gravedigger, hewer, hand, hired hand, hired man, hodman, gipsy, gypsy, itinerant, faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman, miner, mineworker, mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer, skinner, platelayer, tracklayer, porter, rail-splitter, splitter, sawyer, section hand, sprayer, stacker, steeplejack, dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper, stevedore, fireman, stoker, woodcutter, wrecker, yardman.

labourer (noun)	hod carrier (noun)
someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor	a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers

Difference between labourer and hod carrier

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