brickworkn.
/ˈbrɪkwəːk/, U.S. /ˈbrɪkˌwərk/ 1. The bricks in a structure considered collectively; the style or manner in which such bricks have been arranged or treated. In early use also: a structure built of bricks.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with brick > [noun] > brickwork
brickwork1483
tile-work1535
bricking1798
in R. Horrox & P. W. Hammond Brit. Libr. Harleian MS 433 (1980) II. 20 We have commaunded & appointed oure welbeloved servaunt Thomas Nevylle to doo make for us certaine brikewarke at oure Towne of Carlisle.
c1576 J. Leland Itinerary (1907) I. i. 17 This Peny made the new bricke worke in Leicester Abbay.
1594 H. Plat Jewell House 78 Buildinges that consist of Brickwoorke.
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 27 At the latter end of the year..no brick-work without doores ought to be laid.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 50 Bonding of Brick-work..conduces very much to its Fortitude.
1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic i. ii. 159 A Detester of visible Brickwork, in favour of the new-invented Stucco.
1804 Sydney Gaz. 26 Aug. 3 The Brickwork of the Church and Schoolhouse at the Green Hills, Hawkesbury, is now finished.
1874 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. (ed. 4) ii. 271 The brickwork of the [Roman] Empire..is the finest brickwork in the world.
1915 E. Appleton Diary 3 Sept. in R. Cowen Nurse at Front (2013) 50 The guns are big and close, and the brickwork of the building shivers when they fire.
1977 M. Girouard Sweetness & Light iii. 42 The largely defunct craft of rubbed and moulded brickwork was brought to life again by the style.
2017 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 22 May An impressive building..with a very ornate frontage with distinctive brickwork and gable front.
2. The craft or occupation of building structures with bricks; bricklaying.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense 1.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with brick > [noun]
bricklaying1483
brickwork1617
bricklayery1703
bricking1725
wet trade1962
1617 H. Ainsworth Annot. Second Bk. Moses, called Exodus (xxiv. 10) sig. T3/2 The work of brick, might call them to remember their brick work in Egypt,..from which bondage, God now had brought them, to labour in the heavenly work of his Law.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1667 (1955) III. 495 Came Sir Jo: Kiviet to article with me about his Brick-work.
1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 8 Tools used in Brick Work.
1733 S.-Carolina Gaz. 2 Feb. 3/1 (advt.) Samuel Holmes of Charlestown Bricklayer undertakes and performs in workmanlike manner all sorts of Brickwork and Plastering at reasonable Rates.
1793 T. Jefferson Let. 3 Mar. in Papers (1992) XXV. 314 I think it rather improbable that there will be time..to do the brick work.
1853 County Courts Chron. 6 26/2 The defendants had contracted to make a sewer, and had sub-contracted with one Ansel for the excavating, and another person for the brick-work.
1880 Building News 23 Apr. 503/2 Messrs. R. and W. Pierce took the contract for brickwork.
1924 M. S. Briggs Muhammadan Archit. in Egypt & Palestine xi. 184 That the builders were skilled in brickwork is evident from the way in which they have formed engaged shafts at the angles of the piers of the arcades.
1975 G. Wilson Yesterday's Philadelphia 113 (caption) John B. Kelly, Sr., had become a millionaire by 1940 as head of the nation's largest contracting firm specializing in brickwork.
2016 Courier (Dundee) 2 Jan. (Perth & Perthshire ed.) 35/2 (advt.) Building maintenance and repair work, brickwork, stonework, plastering, harling, small jobs welcome.
3. In plural. A factory or site where bricks are made.In quot. 1703 not a fixed collocation.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > bricks or tiles
brickyard1618
stool1693
brickfield1726
brickworks1763
tile-yard1835
tilery1846
tile-field1882
tile-works1882
1703 Proclam. in London Gaz. No. 3879/4 Owner of the Brick and Pantile Works near Tilbury Fort.]
1763 J. Bell Trav. from St. Petersburg I. 6 We directed our course along the western bank of the Neva, till we came to the brick-works.
1841 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 23 Oct. 7/2 The bricks used are from Heathfield Brickworks, and are of a very superior description.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 525 In many brick-works near Paris, screw presses are now used for consolidating the bricks..in their moulds.
1933 W. Muir & E. Muir tr. S. Asch Three Cities v. 50 Day and night long rows of heavy wagons creaked townwards, loaded with bricks from his brickworks.
1963 Times 23 May 7/3 First call, a brickworks. Here, he is told of plans for firing new kilns.
2008 L. Hunt Vampire of New York 283 Men in working clothes, dusty from the brickworks.., heaved themselves through the open doorways of the saloons.
Compounds
attributive, with the sense ‘made of bricks or brickwork’, as brickwork facade, brickwork wall, etc. Cf. brick adj.1 1.
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1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. viii. 148 The better way is to frame a Window as the Brick-work Window, and to project it an Inch and an half beyond the side of the Building.
1797 J. Abercrombie Universal Gardener & Botanist (ed. 2) at Bark-pit The principal detached Bark-pits should generally be formed with brick-work walls.
1879 Graphic 19 July 63/3 A lofty brickwork tower..dominates the Humber and all the inland district.
1915 T. G. Jackson Gothic Archit. in France, Eng., & Italy II. xxiv. 182 The church..has an elegant campanile with a brickwork spire formed..of heading bricks with rounded ends.
1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students xiv. 300 The vapour passes into a large brickwork chamber, where it first condenses to a fine powder known as ‘flowers of sulphur’, which may be scraped off.
2017 Journal (Newcastle) (National ed.) (Nexis) 23 Dec. 23 The existing brickwork facade will be kept with full-length glazed windows added to the fourth floor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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