brickyard
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- noun
- /ˈbrɪkiˌjɑrd/
- After the storm, the brickyard was flooded, delaying production for several weeks.
- close the brickyard
Examples
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He found a job at the local brickyard, where he learned how to make bricks.
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On these assumptions, the adjacent landowners will have no incentive to lobby for a shutdown of the brickyard.
Academic text (2004) -
Paid me two dollars a day to work in his brickyard.
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The parents wanted to take Frank out of school in fifth grade and make him go to work in a brickyard like his brother, Tony.
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Suppose a brickyard that emits smoke and odors operates in a residential neighborhood.
Academic text (2004) -
Slowly and imperceptibly, the shadow crept across the grass and the dusty brickyard.
Fiction book (2000) -
Finally, suppose that the cost to adjacent landowners of organizing a political campaign to enact an ordinance that would close the brickyard is $500,000.
Academic text (2004) -
From B.J. Eddins' brickyard in Manchester, on the 15th of June, a Negro boy by the name of Jack Simes, about twenty years old.
Blog text (9) -
For example, in Hadachek v. Sebastian, 175 there was no intimation that suburban home buyers were unaware of the presence of an operating brickyard in the vicinity of their houses.
Academic text (1990) -
The brickyard was busy, with workers molding clay into bricks for the upcoming building project.
Synonyms
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An area where people make and sometimes sell bricks
How Industrial
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word brickyard combines brick and yard. A brick is a small 'building block' and a yard is an 'open place', so a brickyard is the open place where bricks are made or sold.