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bricklayer|ˈbrɪkˌleɪə(r)|
Also 5 brekeleyer, 5–6 bryche leyer.
[f. brick n. + layer.]
One who lays the bricks in building.
bricklayer's itch: a cutaneous disease produced on the hands of bricklayers through contact with lime.
1485Catal. Harleian MSS. (1808) I. 285/1 Licence..to reteigne Richard Chezholme brekeleyer. c1500Cocke Lorell's B. (1843) 9 Tylers, bryche leyers, harde hewers. 1562Act 5 Eliz. iv. §30 The Art or Occupation of a..Brick-maker, Bricklayer, Tyler. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Conv. betw. B. J. & W. D. Wks. 224 Ben Johnson..was..put to another craft, viz. to be a bricklayer. 1824Byron Juan xvi. lviii, A modern Goth, I mean a Gothic Bricklayer of Babel, call'd an architect. 1841Marryat Poacher iii, He took up the profession of a bricklayer's labourer.
Hence † bricklayery [cf. carpentry] = next.
1677Moxon Mech. Exerc. (1703) Title, The Arts of Smithing, Joinery, Carpentry, Turning, Bricklayery. 1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3922/4 The Arts of..Turning and Bricklayery. |