单词 | brickery |
释义 | brickeryn. Now rare. A place where bricks are made or kept. ΚΠ 1531 Boke Paym. New Fortificacions Calais (P.R.O.: SP 1/66) f. 209v Laborars working at the kinges brykery. 1712 J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northants. i. 70 At Sysam in the South-Western Part of the County is a Brickery, whose Brick is particularly esteemed. 1913 Clay-worker Nov. 552/2 This district is described as a vast brickery, turning out a million thousand brick a year. 2014 London Evening Standard (National ed.) (Nexis) 25 Sept. Transportation costs to further-flung brickeries became too high,..and the demand for bricks fluctuated like any other commodity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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