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brickworks

brickworks noun: a place where bricks are manufactured, particularly organised as a factory.

Noun

brickworks (plural brickworks)

  1. A place where bricks are manufactured, particularly organised as a factory.
    • In addition the Marquess built a brickworks adjacent to the colliery, and also greatly improved the harbour to encourage coastal shipping. A new tramway was laid from the colliery and brickworks to the harbour, using many of the materials from the earlier, now abandoned, railway. […] A short branch...1960 January, Iain D. O. Frew, “The Brora Colliery Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 55, 56
    Synonyms:
    brickyard, brick factory

Synonyms of brickworks

Forms of brickworks

pluralbrickworks

Origin of brickworks

From brick + works.

Questions about brickworks

What does brickworks mean?
Brickworks means a place where bricks are manufactured, particularly organised as a factory.
What part of speech is brickworks?
Brickworks is a noun.
What is the plural of brickworks?
The plural of brickworks is brickworks.

Words near brickworks in the dictionary

  1. brickwit
  2. brickwits
  3. brickwork
  4. brickworker
  5. brickworkers
  6. brickworks
  7. bricky
  8. brickyard
  9. brickyards
  10. bricolage
  11. bricolages

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