Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place where bricks are made.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place where bricks are made.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
factory wherebricks are produced or distributed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a place where bricks are made and sold
Etymologies
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Examples
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We acquired a permit to preach in the "brickyard" of the campus.
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The brickyard was close at hand on the flat beside the Sonoma Creek.
Chapter VIII 2010
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His one-time investment in a brickyard had put the idea into his head -- an idea that he decided was a good one, for it enabled him to suggest that she ride along with him to inspect the quarry.
Chapter XIII 2010
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It was a good lesson, however, for he learned that there were few faiths in the business world, and that even the simple, homely faith of breaking bread and eating salt counted for little in the face of a worthless brickyard and fifty thousand dollars in cash.
Chapter I 2010
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The brickyard paid ten cents a cubic yard for the clay.
Chapter VIII 2010
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From the appearance of the road it was patent that it had been used for hauling clay to the now idle brickyard.
Chapter VIII 2010
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Danish Siddiqui/Reuters Vidya, 12, carried bricks to be baked in a kiln at a brickyard in Satara district, India, Monday.
Photos of the Day 2012
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Ellen for the purpose of inspecting the brickyard with which
Chapter VIII 2010
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The last most publicised case was in tsarist Russia in 1911-13 when Menahem Mendel Beilis, a foreman in a brickyard and a non-practising Jew, was charged with the murder of a 13-year-old boy, Andrei Yushchinsky.
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Resolving to have his fun first, and to look over the brickyard afterward, he rode on up the hill, prospecting for a way across country to get to the knolls.
Chapter VIII 2010
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