单词 | bricking |
释义 | brickingn. 1. a. The action of lining, facing, paving, or enclosing something with bricks. Frequently with adverbs, as in, up, etc.; cf. brick v. Phrasal verbs.In quot. 1725 with reference to the practice of using bricks to line a pit in which a tree is to be planted in order to increase heat, improve drainage, or restrict growth. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with brick > [noun] bricklaying1483 brickwork1617 bricklayery1703 bricking1725 wet trade1962 1725 Daily Post 17 Sept. (advt.) A Garden Ground..well planted with the best Fruit Trees of all sorts; to be Let to a Gardiner or for Bricking. 1741 W. Salmon London & Country Builder's Vade-mecum 4 Digging and Bricking of new Wells, per Foot. 1816 A. Lewis Rhoda I. xv. 261 Certainly the bricking up of the chimney had not weakened her resolution of returning to the land of fires. 1892 C. Warren Miss Wilton xv. 318 Then there is the lighting of the dining-room and the plumbing in the front cellar, and the bricking over of the back yard. 1914 Bull. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics No. 142. 240 The bricking in of the boilers must be effected in such a manner that..one or more passages..remain open. 1993 G. R. Flint et al. in Greater Cairo Wastewater Project (Inst. Civil Engineers) 28/2 The bricking of the shafts followed in quick succession. 2013 H. E. von Renouard tr. S. Döring Power from Pellets vii. 162 The bricking up of the combustion chamber. b. A course, facing, or construction made from brick or bricks; brickwork.With the context of quot. 1798 cf. note at sense 1a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with brick > [noun] > brickwork brickwork1483 tile-work1535 bricking1798 1798 R. Parkinson Experienced Farmer II. App. 296 They should be treated as fruit-trees, except the bricking at the bottom. 1855 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 18 152/1 Accidents from missiles falling down shafts may be traced in a great measure..to the bad state of the bricking. 1918 M. Baillie-Saunders Black Sheep Chapel i. 10 Various carved wooden figures..hung loosely about the blue-washed bricking of the walls. 1958 E. P. Smith Pokes of Gold v. 81 The fire..was on a raised hearth and a continuance of the bricking that held the stove. 2008 Jrnl. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 81 118 The sandy substrate beneath the horizontal bricking of a patio. 2. a. The practice or technique of creating imitation brickwork, typically as a decorative facing for a wall or building. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > others popinjay1322 serpent1388 moss-work1600 flame1602 frostwork1631 damask branch1634 mascaron1664 lacework1675 swash1680 branch-work1702 escallop-shella1706 festoon work1712 ovum1728 bricking1760 rising sun1787 ram's horn1842 linen-pattern1845 linen-scroll1854 wheel-rood1862 primal1875 patch ornament1878 tree1879 wheel-cross1882 skeuomorph1889 linenfold1891 taotie1915 boteh1917 pelta1935 starburst1953 quilling1972 towel-pattern- 1760 J. Marchant New Compl. Eng. Dict. Bricking, among Builders, is the counterfeiting a brick wall on plaister, which is done by smearing it over with red ochre, and marking the joints with a tool; these last are afterwards filled with a fine white plaister. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 371/2 Bricking, the imitation of brick-work on a plastered or stuccoed surface. 1981 Utah Hist. Q. Winter 69 A good bricking, as this decorative technique is often called, could transform an adobe house quickly into ‘brick’. b. Embroidery. A style of needlework in which the rows of stitches resemble the staggered horizontal and vertical arrangement of brickwork.See also brick couching n. and brick stitch n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > done in specific stitches > couching > specific brick stitch1842 brick couching1881 brick1882 spider couching1882 Vandyke couching1882 bricking1899 surface couching1927 underside-couching1936 1899 W. G. P. Townsend Embroidery vi. 97 Also a form of bricking, the stitches being only over the crossbars. 1911 A. Dryden Church Embroidery 112 For ordinary bricking use about ten stitches to the inch. 1974 J. Gray Canvas Work 26 The bricking forms a matt background for the highly reflective diamonds worked in rayon floss. 2018 www.astitchornine.com 25 Apr. (O.E.D. Archive) There's a lot of stitching to go and the couching and bricking definitely needs some work but what a great design! ΚΠ 1863 Daily Tel. 11 Aug. 5/5 Another favourite punishment..was that of ‘bricking’, which was done by bringing the knees close up to the chin and lashing the arms tightly to the knees. 1880 H. Bleby Stolen Children iv. 23 His master, after tying his hands together, drew them down over his knees, where he confined them by means of a stick thrust under his knees... This method of confining a negro for punishment was called ‘bricking’, and was much practised in slave-land. Compounds attributive. Chiefly Mining. In various compounds denoting the apparatus or a device used for lining a mine shaft or similar excavation with bricks, as bricking ring, bricking scaffold, etc. ΚΠ 1864 Trans. Manch. Geol. Soc. 4 196 A wood bricking ring..laid at the bottom. 1924 Glasgow Herald 20 Mar. 12 But between him and his coal, before ever he had sunk his bricking ring, intervened the war. 1989 R. J. Perkins Onsite Wastewater Disposal v. 90 If a bricking machine is not available, the brick or block liner must be placed by hand. 2008 D. Lane et al. Astley Green Colliery (ed. 2) (e-book, accessed 14 Aug. 2018) 20 At a depth of 11ft. 5in below the pressure ring was the bricking scaffold, which supported the men working on the tubbing etc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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