brickmaking

1 3.4

Making bricks from clay or similar materials by shaping and heating them for building

noun
/ˈbrɪkˌmeɪkɪŋ/

Specialized

: fabricación de ladrillos

Only 8 percent of black workers were employed in manufacturing of any kind—most in low-skill, preindustrial jobs such as brickmaking—compared to 47 percent of white immigrants and 40 percent of native whites.

Examples

We won't make an author of you while there's an honest trade to be learned... or brickmaking to turn to.

Oliver Twist (2005)
The mobilization of materials for specific building sites also led GBI administrators to take advantage of the SS control over forced-labor concentration camps set up around quarrying and brickmaking facilities.

Academic text (1996)
The brickmaking process involves mixing clay with water and shaping it into bricks before firing them in a kiln.
She learned the art of brickmaking from her grandfather, who had been in the industry for over fifty years.
The local factory specializes in brickmaking, producing thousands of bricks each day for construction projects.

How Industrial

brickmaking

Specialized

1 3.4

brickmaking machine

Specialized

5.1

Surface Forms

brickmaking singular

brickmakings plural

Morphology

brickmaking = brick + making (transparent) = brick + make + ing

The sense denotes the process of making bricks and is directly deducible from 'brick' + 'making'.

Etymology

Brickmaking comes from two clear parts: brick, from the old French brique meaning 'baked clay block', and making, meaning 'producing'. So brickmaking literally names the process of producing those clay blocks used for building.