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brickmaking

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

noun

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


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Origin of brickmaking

First recorded in 1695–1705; brick + making

Example Sentences

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Children are doing every step of the brickmaking process.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2022

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

In return, Ms. Khatun and her three older children, then 10, 12 and 15, promised to work for seven months in a nearby brickmaking factory.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2014

The founder of the family, George Willis, was born early in the seventeenth century, and emigrated to New England about 1730, where he worked at his trade of brickmaking and building.

From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by Paston, George

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