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brickfield

American  
[brik-feeld] / ˈbrɪkˌfild /

noun

British.
  1. brickyard.


Etymology

Origin of brickfield

First recorded in 1795–1805; brick + field

Example Sentences

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His way lay over a place half brickfield, half common, across which a narrow footpath went.

From The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch by Reed, Talbot Baines

It will be the realization of all the silly rubbish I talked in the old brickfield at Bludston.

From The Fortunate Youth by Locke, William John

Mavis looked over a desert of waste land and brickfield to a hideous, forbidding-looking structure in the distance.

From Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Newte, Horace W. C. (Horace Wykeham Can)

In the spring of 1870 I went to work in a brickfield at Alby.

From From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography by George Edwards M.P. O.B.E.

Golgotha was a grim garden compared with Paul's brickfield.

From The Fortunate Youth by Locke, William John