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brickmaking

American  
[brik-mey-king] / ˈbrɪkˌmeɪ kɪŋ /

noun

  1. the act, process, or occupation of making bricks.


Other Word Forms

  • brickmaker noun

Etymology

Origin of brickmaking

First recorded in 1695–1705; brick + making

Example Sentences

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Children are doing every step of the brickmaking process.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2022

They also paid for a brickmaking business with about 370 workers, an anti-malaria project and a series of gardens to preserve rare plants that were being destroyed by activity at the mine.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2021

Johnston writes that Yarrow was known for his brickmaking, his basket-weaving and his swimming prowess in the Potomac River.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2015

She read about brickmaking and the Este family’s patronage of the arts, and she read Leon Battista Alberti and Cennino Cennini’s treatises on painting.

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2015

It had its farming department, its blacksmith, wheelwright, brickmaking, carpentry, and sewing departments.

From Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various