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brickkiln

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[brik-kil, -kiln] / ˈbrɪkˌkɪl, -ˌkɪln /

noun

  1. a kiln or furnace in which bricks are baked or burned.


Etymology

Origin of brickkiln

First recorded in 1475–85; brick + kiln

Example Sentences

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Nearby in the shadow of a smoking brickkiln a crew of workmen dig up Yangtze mud, knead it with blue mortar dust, slap it into forms before baking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet, in the forming of compounds, it may possibly happen, that two Aitches, two Kays, or even two Double-ues or Wies, shall come together; as in withhold, brickkiln, slowwoorm, bayyarn.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

There was but one brick church, and that was the present St. Paul's, not, as we now see it, with its tasteful interior, but a rude brickkiln with an enormous cocked hat stuck upon it.

From Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell by Grigsby, Hugh Blair