单词 | brick-stack |
释义 | > as lemmasbrick-stack a. With the sense ‘of or relating to brick or bricks’, ‘that works with bricks’, ‘used for bricks, or in making bricks’; as brick-mason, brick-stack, brick-pit, etc.Recorded earliest in brickman n. and brick tile.See also brick kiln n. (first attested 1442), brickstone n. (c1453), brickwork n. (1483), brick axe n. (1533-4), brick clamp n. (1597), brickyard n. (1618), brick mould n.1 (1688), brick hammer n. (1688), brick clay n., (1688), brickfield n. (1726), brick barge n. (1738), brick mould n.2 (1750), brick tax n. (1784), brick press n. (1825), etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builder of walls > bricklayer brickman1418 brick-masonc1435 bricklayerc1442 bricker1482 troweller1611 trowel-mana1637 red mason1700 bricksetter1811 brickie1847 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > pile of bricks brick-stack1915 1418 in L. F. Salzman Building in Eng. (1992) viii. 142 Henry Sondergyltes, brykeman [employed..to make] bryktill [at Deptford]. c1435 in C. L. Kingsford Rep. MSS Ld. de l'Isle & Dudley (1925) I. 213 (MED) Brekemasons. 1605 Churchwardens' Acct. Leverton in Archaeologia (1867) 41 367 Pd to Thoms Jenkinson brickmayson for chalke haire..iij s x d. 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 8 A Brick Trowel. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 384 The Brick-trowel is used for spreading mortar, and likewise for cutting bricks. 1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 251 Whatever there is no room for in the Greenhouse must be consigned to the brick-pits. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 345/2 A large circular brick furnace..erected conveniently near the saw-mill. 1915 Times 15 Apr. 4/1 A severe bombardment of the ‘brickstacks’ and the enemy's trenches. 1998 O. Rackham Trees & Woodland in Brit. Landscape (rev. ed.) vi. 118 Certain well-defined kinds of dug pit—gravel-pits, brick-pits, marl-pits,..ochre-pits—sometimes happen to occur in woodland. < as lemmas |
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