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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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Moreover he had planted a large number of machine guns in the brickfield near La Bassée.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

She had gone on, she said in her note, to an aunt and uncle who had a brickfield near Horsham.

From The War in the Air by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Cautiously he looked forth over flat landscape of building site, of brickfield, of the huge tanks and lush vegetation of sewage farms.

From A Sheaf of Corn by Mann, Mary E.

It will be the realization of all the silly rubbish I talked in the old brickfield at Bludston.

From The Fortunate Youth by Locke, William John

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

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

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