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brickmaking

American  
[brik-may-king] / ˈbrɪkˌmeɪ kɪŋ /

noun

  1. the act, process, or occupation of making bricks.


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Etymology

Origin of brickmaking

First recorded in 1695–1705; brick + making


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They also paid for a brickmaking business with about 370 workers, an anti-malaria project and a series of gardens to preserve rare plants that were being destroyed by activity at the mine.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2021

Members of brickmaking families said school closures — scheduled to last at least until December — have led to many children and adolescents working longer hours.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2020

The agency started a masonry class, but fighters intercepted its brickmaking materials.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2017

She read about brickmaking and the Este family’s patronage of the arts, and she read Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini’s treatises on painting.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2015

My father obtained work at brickmaking in the little village of Alby, about seven miles from Marsham.

From From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography by George Edwards M.P. O.B.E.

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