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brickfield

American  
[brik-feeld] / ˈbrɪkˌfild /

noun

British.
  1. brickyard.


Etymology

Origin of brickfield

First recorded in 1795–1805; brick + field

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Near the brickfield there is that immense windmill, for of course every town must have one.

From St. Peter's Umbrella by Mikszáth, Kálmán

This affair took place in the last week in March 1869, and I obtained work for the summer on a brickfield at Bessingham.

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

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

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

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 Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

It was not a pleasant spot that brickfield, and seemed to have been thrust out far from the habitations of ordinary men.

From A Double Knot by Fenn, George Manville

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