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单词 bricking
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brickingn.

Brit. /ˈbrɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbrɪkɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: brick v., brick n.1, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: Partly < brick v. + -ing suffix1, and partly < brick n.1 + -ing suffix1.
1.
a. The action of lining, facing, paving, or enclosing something with bricks. Frequently with adverbs, as in, up, etc.; cf. brick v. Phrasal verbs.In quot. 1725 with reference to the practice of using bricks to line a pit in which a tree is to be planted in order to increase heat, improve drainage, or restrict growth.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with brick > [noun]
bricklaying1483
brickwork1617
bricklayery1703
bricking1725
wet trade1962
1725 Daily Post 17 Sept. (advt.) A Garden Ground..well planted with the best Fruit Trees of all sorts; to be Let to a Gardiner or for Bricking.
1741 W. Salmon London & Country Builder's Vade-mecum 4 Digging and Bricking of new Wells, per Foot.
1816 A. Lewis Rhoda I. xv. 261 Certainly the bricking up of the chimney had not weakened her resolution of returning to the land of fires.
1892 C. Warren Miss Wilton xv. 318 Then there is the lighting of the dining-room and the plumbing in the front cellar, and the bricking over of the back yard.
1914 Bull. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics No. 142. 240 The bricking in of the boilers must be effected in such a manner that..one or more passages..remain open.
1993 G. R. Flint et al. in Greater Cairo Wastewater Project (Inst. Civil Engineers) 28/2 The bricking of the shafts followed in quick succession.
2013 H. E. von Renouard tr. S. Döring Power from Pellets vii. 162 The bricking up of the combustion chamber.
b. A course, facing, or construction made from brick or bricks; brickwork.With the context of quot. 1798 cf. note at sense 1a.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with brick > [noun] > brickwork
brickwork1483
tile-work1535
bricking1798
1798 R. Parkinson Experienced Farmer II. App. 296 They should be treated as fruit-trees, except the bricking at the bottom.
1855 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 18 152/1 Accidents from missiles falling down shafts may be traced in a great measure..to the bad state of the bricking.
1918 M. Baillie-Saunders Black Sheep Chapel i. 10 Various carved wooden figures..hung loosely about the blue-washed bricking of the walls.
1958 E. P. Smith Pokes of Gold v. 81 The fire..was on a raised hearth and a continuance of the bricking that held the stove.
2008 Jrnl. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 81 118 The sandy substrate beneath the horizontal bricking of a patio.
2.
a. The practice or technique of creating imitation brickwork, typically as a decorative facing for a wall or building.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > others
popinjay1322
serpent1388
moss-work1600
flame1602
frostwork1631
damask branch1634
mascaron1664
lacework1675
swash1680
branch-work1702
escallop-shella1706
festoon work1712
ovum1728
bricking1760
rising sun1787
ram's horn1842
linen-pattern1845
linen-scroll1854
wheel-rood1862
primal1875
patch ornament1878
tree1879
wheel-cross1882
skeuomorph1889
linenfold1891
taotie1915
boteh1917
pelta1935
starburst1953
quilling1972
towel-pattern-
1760 J. Marchant New Compl. Eng. Dict. Bricking, among Builders, is the counterfeiting a brick wall on plaister, which is done by smearing it over with red ochre, and marking the joints with a tool; these last are afterwards filled with a fine white plaister.
1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 371/2 Bricking, the imitation of brick-work on a plastered or stuccoed surface.
1981 Utah Hist. Q. Winter 69 A good bricking, as this decorative technique is often called, could transform an adobe house quickly into ‘brick’.
b. Embroidery. A style of needlework in which the rows of stitches resemble the staggered horizontal and vertical arrangement of brickwork.See also brick couching n. and brick stitch n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > done in specific stitches > couching > specific
brick stitch1842
brick couching1881
brick1882
spider couching1882
Vandyke couching1882
bricking1899
surface couching1927
underside-couching1936
1899 W. G. P. Townsend Embroidery vi. 97 Also a form of bricking, the stitches being only over the crossbars.
1911 A. Dryden Church Embroidery 112 For ordinary bricking use about ten stitches to the inch.
1974 J. Gray Canvas Work 26 The bricking forms a matt background for the highly reflective diamonds worked in rayon floss.
2018 www.astitchornine.com 25 Apr. (O.E.D. Archive) There's a lot of stitching to go and the couching and bricking definitely needs some work but what a great design!
3. U.S. regional (southern) slang. A form of punishment or torture in which a person is bound with the knees tucked up to the chin and the arms wrapped around the legs. Obsolete.
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1863 Daily Tel. 11 Aug. 5/5 Another favourite punishment..was that of ‘bricking’, which was done by bringing the knees close up to the chin and lashing the arms tightly to the knees.
1880 H. Bleby Stolen Children iv. 23 His master, after tying his hands together, drew them down over his knees, where he confined them by means of a stick thrust under his knees... This method of confining a negro for punishment was called ‘bricking’, and was much practised in slave-land.

Compounds

attributive. Chiefly Mining. In various compounds denoting the apparatus or a device used for lining a mine shaft or similar excavation with bricks, as bricking ring, bricking scaffold, etc.
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1864 Trans. Manch. Geol. Soc. 4 196 A wood bricking ring..laid at the bottom.
1924 Glasgow Herald 20 Mar. 12 But between him and his coal, before ever he had sunk his bricking ring, intervened the war.
1989 R. J. Perkins Onsite Wastewater Disposal v. 90 If a bricking machine is not available, the brick or block liner must be placed by hand.
2008 D. Lane et al. Astley Green Colliery (ed. 2) (e-book, accessed 14 Aug. 2018) 20 At a depth of 11ft. 5in below the pressure ring was the bricking scaffold, which supported the men working on the tubbing etc.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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