bricklayer
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2.5
- noun
- /ˈbrɪkˌleɪər/
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- Most of the pioneering marathoners were blue-collar types: construction workers, bricklayers, and printing-press operators.
So within about six months of that I was working as a trainee bricklayer and it was alright.
- So within about six months of that I was working as a trainee bricklayer and it was alright.
- If you want to do that, if you want to do brickwork, you must talk to bricklayers that are pushing ahead.
- And bricklayers don't get bricklayers block ever, right?
- And as a pub, as a pub folk musician, he's been singing the sick note, IE the bricklayer song, for decades.
Examples
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A bricklayer puts down three rows of bricks.
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So within about six months of that I was working as a trainee bricklayer and it was alright.
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A good bricklayer took what he got and built the best he could with it.
Fiction book (1998) -
His father was a union bricklayer in Troy, Ohio, and he had five brothers and sisters.
Blog text (9) -
This is a bricklayer's most important tool.
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There is an undersupply of qualified bricklayers in Canada, but they are still paid less than lawyers.
Blog text (13) -
Under lights, a crew of bricklayers is erecting a ten-foot wall where a street once ran unimpeded.
Fiction book (1993) -
Our bricklayers were repairing the stone flooring at Houston's world-class Museum of Fine Arts.
Academic text (1999) -
The skilled bricklayer constructed a sturdy wall for the new library.
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As a bricklayer, he spent hours every day mixing mortar and laying bricks.
Synonyms
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A person who builds with stone or brick
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Etymology
Bricklayer is simply made of brick, meaning a hard block used for building, and layer, meaning one who 'lays' things. So a bricklayer is literally someone who 'lays' bricks to make walls and houses.