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brickfield

American  
[brik-feeld] / ˈbrɪkˌfild /

noun

British.
  1. brickyard.


Etymology

Origin of brickfield

First recorded in 1795–1805; brick + field

Example Sentences

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

From The Fortunate Youth by William John Locke

He met men who wanted to extend a brickfield down by the railway.

From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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

Do you remember, sonny, when I left you alone that night and went to the other side of the brickfield?

From The Fortunate Youth by William John Locke

Nothing is quite so pleasant, so invigorating, nor quite so dangerous as life in these brickfield posts.

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

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