brickfield

American  

[brik-feeld] / ˈbrɪkˌfild /

noun

British.

1. brickyard.

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Etymology

Origin of brickfield

First recorded in 1795–1805; brick + field

Example Sentences

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brickfield

Gone were the days of vagabondage, the lazy, the delicious even though cold and hungry hours of dreaming and reading in the brickfield; gone was the happy freedom of the chartered libertine of the gutter.

From The Fortunate Youth by William John Locke

To convey these materials from the brickfield to the barrack-ground, a distance of about three-quarters of a mile, three brick-carts were employed, each drawn by twelve men, under the direction of one overseer.

From An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. by David Collins

Moreover he had planted a large number of machine guns in the brickfield near La Bassée.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill

Cautiously he looked forth over flat landscape of building site, of brickfield, of the huge tanks and lush vegetation of sewage farms.

From A Sheaf of Corn by Mary E. Mann

He found the owner of the brickfield an old man, as skilled in craft as Ulysses.

From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson