单词 | brick press |
释义 | brick pressn. A machine or device used in the making or manufacturing of bricks to press and consolidate the clay. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > brick-making equipment > [noun] > mould voider1683 brick mould1688 brick press1825 1825 Recorder & Tel. (Boston) 26 Feb. 36/4 Mr. David Flagg, of Gardiner, Me. has invented a machine, called the Brick Press, by which 8 or 10,000 bricks may be pressed in a day. 1856 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 11 June 515/1 It is the practice..to dress a portion of the bricks by hand with boards called tappers, or by means of a small machine called a brick-press. 1947 Brit. Jrnl. Industr. Med. 4 39 A boy aged fifteen years who was operating a brick press. 2013 Africa News (Nexis) 29 Apr. Its flagship product is a manual brick press that more easily produces 3,000 interlocking bricks per day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1825 |
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