Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The technique or work of constructing with bricks and mortar.
- noun A structure made of bricks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Work done or constructed with bricks; bricklayers' work.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Anything made of bricks.
- noun The act of building with or laying bricks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Those parts of items that are made of
brick . - noun The quality of the construction of brick built items.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun masonry done with bricks and mortar
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Examples
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It was not actually as cool as I had hoped in that all the old brickwork is up the dangerous channel (the way we didn't go) so it was basically just a really long, filthy culvert, and the river was foul, but I now know an awful lot about buried rivers.
May 10th, 2009 matociquala 2009
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Clearly what with a coup in Thailand, allegations of corruption at the heart of English football and the trial of the UK's first Iraq war criminal, the state of my brickwork is the most important thing in the whole world. posted by Alistair Myles at 5:24 PM
Iron brew II Alistair Myles 2006
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And then, again, just before heading down, we were told the brickwork is the finest in the world—factoids mentioned, I guess, so that we would concentrate more on the bricks than on what was floating past.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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And then, again, just before heading down, we were told the brickwork is the finest in the world—factoids mentioned, I guess, so that we would concentrate more on the bricks than on what was floating past.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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Clearly what with a coup in Thailand, allegations of corruption at the heart of English football and the trial of the UK's first Iraq war criminal, the state of my brickwork is the most important thing in the whole world. posted by Alistair Myles at 5:24 PM
Archive 2006-09-01 Alistair Myles 2006
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The quality of the brickwork is the best that I have ever seen, and not a single brick was disturbed beyond those actually removed.
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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There is indeed a great deal of very evident brickwork, which is never fresh or loud in colour, but always burnt out, as it were, always exquisitely mild.
Italian Hours Henry James 1879
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The brickwork, which is older by twelve years than that of the gate, is concealed under a coat of stucco.
Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London Walter Besant 1868
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"We are 99 percent certain this is the theater, it's in the right place and the brickwork is the right age," he said.
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"We are 99\% certain this is the theatre, it's in the right place and the brickwork is the right age," he said.
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