brickyard

See also: brick-yard and brick yard

English

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  • brick yard, brick-yard

Etymology

From brick +‎ yard.

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brickyard (plural brickyards)

  1. A place where bricks are, or once were, produced or distributed.
    • 2007 June 3, Somini Sengupta, “In a New India, an Old Industry Buoys Peasants”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      Since Vanita was a child, the family has roamed the country in search of work — in construction and road-building, and finally, here to this brickyard.

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