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

Further east, and between the native location and Cannon Kopje, on the northern bank of the river, extend the brickfields, while a little further in the same direction is MacMullan's Farm.

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

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

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