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单词 bricklayer
释义

bricklayern.

Brit. /ˈbrɪkleɪə/, U.S. /ˈbrɪkˌleɪ(ə)r/
Forms: see brick n.1 and layer n.; also 1500s bricklar, 1500s bryche leyer.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: brick n.1, layer n.
Etymology: < brick n.1 + layer n. Compare bricklaying n.
A person whose job is to build walls, houses, and other structures with bricks; a person who lays bricks as an occupation or trade. Cf bricklaying n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builder of walls > bricklayer
brickman1418
brick-masonc1435
bricklayerc1442
bricker1482
troweller1611
trowel-mana1637
red mason1700
bricksetter1811
brickie1847
c1442 in R. R. Tighe & J. E. Davis Ann. Windsor (1858) I. 337 [Robert Chirche, called the] Warden-layeer and Brekelayeer.
in R. Horrox & P. W. Hammond Brit. Libr. Harleian MS 433 (1980) II. 28 Richard Cheyholme (Brekemaker) Brekeleyere with iiij servauntes with him is Reteigned in the same his occupacione.
1562–3 Act 5 Elizabeth I c. 4 §23 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. i. 420 Tharte or Occupation of a..Brickmaker Bricklayer Tyler Slater [etc.].
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. ii. 142 The elder [child]..Became a Bricklayer, when he came to age.
a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 224 Ben Johnson..was..put to another Craft, viz. to be a Bricklayer.
1766 Ann. Reg. 1765 113/1 The bricks are often brought to the bricklayers, before they are cold enough to be handled.
1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook I. iii. 28 He took up the profession of bricklayer's labourer.
1969 Occup. Outlook Handbk. (U.S. Dept. Labor) 325/3 A bricklayer will usually cut brick with his trowel, brick hammer, or brick chisel.
2002 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 27 Sept. 75 Hundreds of young people have found work as joiners, painters, electricians, bricklayers,..and plumbers.

Compounds

bricklayers' itch n. (also bricklayer's itch, bricklayers itch) an occupational disease of bricklayers characterized by the presence of an itchy rash on the hands, attributed to contact with lime and other substances contained in mortar or cement.
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1813 T. Bateman Pract. Synopsis Cutaneous Dis. v. 150 It is worthy of remark, that both the grocer's and the bricklayer's itch is, in some individuals, a pustular, and in others a vesicular eruption, referable to the Eczema; but in neither case contagious.
1980 E. Cronin Contact Dermatitis 300 In France in 1957 bricklayers itch constituted 20–25 per cent of occupational skin diseases.
2004 D. E. Manuel Walking Paris Hospitals 45 (note) Itch: generic term for a wide range of skin diseases characterised by itching, including, for example, barbers' itch, grocers' itch, bricklayers' itch.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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