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Meanings of brickwork in English
Spanish
ladrillera 
Factory where bricks are made.
Synonyms
Examples for "brickworks"
Examples for "brickworks"
1
She parked so that she had a clear view of the brickworks.
2
The voice from the brickworks which he carries inside him begins to speak.
3
He did not know what kept him from leaving the brickworks.
4
Joel and his friends have started playing at the deserted old brickworks again.
5
Niedermann had not intended to stay long at the brickworks.
1
Like henbane, it is often seen on rubbish-heaps and in old brickfields.
2
He employs on his estate-inmines, brickfields, and plantations-overfour thousand men.
3
He would get up, and go out down to the brickfields.
4
And the air seemed always grey, and the smoke from the brickfields was grey.
5
Away to the right were Guinchy, with its brickfields and the ruins of Givenchy.
1
The light that never was on sea or land fell upon the brickfield.
2
He suggested my shutting out the brickfield-ifI didn't like the brickfield-withtrees.
3
And yet, poor, foolish child, fresh from the Egyptian brickfield, you could not rest satisfied.
4
Golgotha was a grim garden compared with Paul's brickfield.
5
They laid the scene in the brickfield.
1
In the brickyards vagrants lived and slept, cooking their food at the kilns.
2
The town ended with the brickyards and the open country began.
3
Their work was in the brickyards, the quarries, the mines, or in the fields or forests.
4
After that, brickyards, guilds of weavers and tailors.
5
Beyond the cemetery came the smoking brickyards.
1
The succeeding summer found him at work in a brick yard.
2
The next two years were spent in the brick yard of A. W. Duty.
3
Here he engaged in making brick , the subject of this sketch, twelve years old, assisting in the brick yard.
4
Red brick yard, clothes' line.
5
The clay may be obtained from a brick yard; it gives most satisfactory results after it has been ground ready for brick making.
1
The Americans repaired a brick factory and the insurgents blew it up.
2
Near it stood a one story brick factory building, closed, but not abandoned.
3
I was working in a brick factory for a boss who was a shit.
4
Then down one narrow alleyway a tall, functional brick factory building takes you by surprise.
5
Lalzaman, his wife and five children are living at the brick factory in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar province.
Usage of brickwork in English
1
His sharp tug detached a mass of the plant from the brickwork.
2
Sunny patches lay, distributed in fresh patterns, upon the old brickwork flooring.
3
The stations are often quite handsome structures of mingled stone and brickwork.
4
Mac joined her to contemplate the view, chin resting on the brickwork.
5
The house breathes, so to speak, through the pores of its brickwork.
6
It is a confection of ornate red brickwork with many elaborate features.
7
He leapt clean over its head, and was flung back-bythe brickwork.
8
The brickwork didn't even shudder at the vibrations of my raised voice.
9
The distant mountaintops peered over the plastered brickwork of the church wall.
10
He pointed again at the rough brickwork, the pointing and the guttering.
11
The design is stripped-back, with whitewashed walls, exposed brickwork and minimalist-style furniture.
12
They avoided us, their eyes scanning the brickwork and the heavy doors.
13
More shadows, blasted into crumbling brickwork, more fading echoes of startled screams.
14
Standing on it, he could look over the top of the brickwork.
15
Her fingers brushed the brickwork and found it dry to the touch.
16
Dust rose in uneven plumes down the ruined length of the brickwork.
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Brickwork through the time
Brickwork across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common