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

Golgotha was a grim garden compared with Paul's brickfield.

From The Fortunate Youth by Locke, William John

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 Locke, William John

His way lay over a place half brickfield, half common, across which a narrow footpath went.

From The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch by Reed, Talbot Baines

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

From The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)

We are now, after almost six months' siege, some 1,700 yards in advance of the town, and the south-eastern outposts, as these brickfield forts are called, constitute our most outlying positions around beleaguered Mafeking.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus