单词 | brickyard |
释义 | brickyardn. A yard or site where bricks are manufactured. ΘΚΠ 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 1618 Minutes May in S. M. Kingsbury Rec. Virginia Company (1933) III. 98 Tooles for a Brick yard. 1691 G. W. Story Impartial Hist. Occurr. Kingdom Ireland 142 A Captain, Lieutenant, and Forty Men, were posted in the Brick-Yard, near Cill Abby, to hinder the Enemy from making their Escape that way. 1769 T. Jefferson Memorandum Bks. 31 July (1997) I. 146 John Moore sent a fellow to assist in brick yard. 1864 Leeds Mercury 20 Sept. He went to work at a brick yard. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Apr. 11/2 He has succeeded in emancipating..little brickyard children from a regular Egyptian bondage. 1913 B. Goodkind Poor Amer. in Ireland & Scotl. viii. 120 Thank the Lord, now I would not have to do any more hard manual labor. No more wood chopping,..no back breaking work in brickyards, etc., etc. 1955 S. R. Spencer B. T. Washington & Negro's Place in Amer. Life v. 84 One hundred and twenty thousand bricks stood ready for burning at the brickyard. 2000 R. W. Holder Taunton Cider & Langdons xi. 54 The only land allocated by the Borough Council for industrial development was either in a swamp or on the site of a former brickyard which had been subject to landfill. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1618 |
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