brickfield

[brik-feeld]

noun

British.

1. brickyard.

Word History and Origins

Origin of brickfield¹

First recorded in 1795–1805; brick + field

Example Sentences

However, everything draws to an end, and the Boers, abandoning their intention of turning us out of the brickfields, ceased fire, giving to ourselves an opportunity to prepare breakfast.

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

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From the advanced trench in the river-bed some successful sniping at the foe on the brickfields was carried on, however, and from here the enemy was eventually routed by the smart action of the besieged.

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A wild stag proudly carrying his “brow, bay, and tray” over Exmoor seems no less capricious than an astonished hind, enlarged amongst the brickfields of Hounslow, or the rich pastures that lie outstretched below Harrow-on-the-Hill.

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It was six o'clock as we neared London; the faint sickly fume of the brickfields about Acton came in puffs through the open window, and a mist was rising from the ground.

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