单词 | brick clamp |
释义 | brick clampn. Now rare. A large stack or pile of unbaked bricks assembled for firing in the open air, in which fuel is placed among or under the bricks. Cf. clamp n.3 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > stack of bricks brick clamp1597 clamp1597 clam1663 1597 S. Finche Let. 8 Feb. in A. C. Ducarel Some Acct. Town Croydon (1783) App. 152 Weeks the bricklar hath bene at your brick-clamps, and commendes them for verie good. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 128 In the glass-houses, Salt-works, and Brick-clamps, they use the raw coal as brought from the pit. 1844 A. R. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury II. xvi. 228 Some contiguous brick clamp dispelled the gloom. 1902 Brit. Clayworker Dec. 300/2 The smell of burning brick clamps travels for miles. 1996 Belton Hall (National Trust) (rev. ed.) ii. 11/1 The steward's accounts show the first of many payments to local workers for gathering gorse and bracken, and binding them in sheaves as fuel to fire the brick clamps, or kilns. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1597 |
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