Meanings
plural brickkilns
- A kiln in which bricks are baked.
Are some poor boys brought before him for sleeping in brickkilns, — a circumstance to which they may have been compelled by want of room at home, or the damp and cold nights of autumn[…]?
1819, The Examiner, numbers 575-626, page 641
Origin
Translations
Latin laterīna
- laterīnaa kiln in which bricks are baked
Vietnamese lò gạch
- lò gạcha kiln in which bricks are baked
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