Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The art of making bricks.

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  • noun The making of bricks.

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Examples

  • We hope next season to continue to investigate a broad area to the east of the pyramid temple that was used first as a staging area for construction activities, such as brickmaking and stone carving, and later for the production of the bread and beer central to the daily functioning of the temple.

    Tribute to a Conquering King 2001

  • All of the work for the building, such as brickmaking, brick-masonry, carpentry, blacksmithing, etc., would be done by the students.

    Up From Slavery: An Autobiography 1901

  • All of the work for the building, such as brickmaking, brick-masonry, carpentry, blacksmithing, etc., would be done by the students.

    Up From Slavery Washington, Booker T 1901

  • All of the work for the building, such as brickmaking, brick-masonry, carpentry, blacksmithing, etc., would be done by the students.

    Raising Money 1901

  • All of the work for the building, such as brickmaking, brick-masonry, carpentry, blacksmithing, etc., would be done by the students.

    Up from Slavery: an autobiography Booker T. Washington 1885

  • Free market naysayers and straw industry lobbyists claimed that this would cripple the brickmaking industry, but instead the Hebrews adjusted.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Rehabilitating Pharaoh 2010

  • Free market naysayers and straw industry lobbyists claimed that this would cripple the brickmaking industry, but instead the Hebrews adjusted.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Rehabilitating Pharaoh 2010

  • When Robertson was six, his father took a job at a brickmaking business not far from Stirling, and the family settled in nearby Bridge of Allan.

    A life in writing: James Robertson 2010

  • Where else but Forum could you find a movie that teaches everything there is to know about brickmaking from Gando, Burkina Faso to Fläsch, Switzerland?

    'Zum Vergleich', a Cin��ma V��rit�� Tour de Force 2009

  • But women made the bricks, and the durableness of each civilization depended upon their quality; and it was no good weakening oneself for the brickmaking by thinking too much about the flood.

    Is It True that Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History? Linda 2007

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