Word Meanings - BRICKMAKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.

Related words: (words related to BRICKMAKER)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• OCCUPATION
  1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
• BRICKY
  Full of bricks; formed of bricks; resembling bricks or brick dust. Spenser.
• BRICKWORK
  1. Anything made of bricks. Niches in brickwork form the most difficult part of the bricklayer's art. Tomlinson. 2. The act of building with or laying bricks.
• BRICKKILN
  A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.
• BRICKYARD
  A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• BRICKLE
  Brittle; easily broken. Spenser. As stubborn steel excels the brickle glass. Turbervile.
• BRICKLENESS
  Brittleness.
• BRICKFIELDER
  Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney,
• BRICK
  breaking, fragment, Prov. E. brique piece, brique de pain, equiv. to 1. A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. The
• BRICKLAYER
  One whose pccupation is to build with bricks. Bricklayer's itch. See under Itch.
• BRICKBAT
  A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4. Bacon.
• BRICKLAYING
  The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.
• MALM; MALMBRICK
  A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.
• ARCH BRICK
  A wedge-shaped brick used in the building of an arch.
• INOCCUPATION
  Want of occupation.
• DISOCCUPATION
  The state of being unemployed; want of occupation.
• PREOCCUPATION
  1. The act of preoccupying, or taking possession of beforehand; the state of being preoccupied; prepossession. 2. Anticipation of objections. South.