brickkiln
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of brickkiln
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.
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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
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