Meanings
nounbrickwork (uncountable)
- uncountableA structure, or portion of a structure, that is made out of bricks.
The chimney, built in brickwork, was to be plastered on the inside several feet from where the fireplace was to be.
1995, Fred Archer, “Sapper, a Master Plasterer”, in The Cuckoo Pen: Tales of English Village Life Between the Wars, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Publising, →ISBN, page 691 more example
The two lower rows of tubes at each end pier were then drilled through to the extrados of the brickwork to act as weep holes and assist in the drainage from the backs of the arches.
1954 January 28, “Strengthening of Coquet Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 19 - uncountableThe quality of the construction of a brick structure.
Origin
Translations
German Mauerwerk
- Mauerwerkstructure made of brick
Latin latericium
- latericiumstructure made of brick
Norwegian Bokmål murverk
- murverkstructure made of brick
Polish wątek, wiązanie
- wątekstructure made of brick
- wiązaniestructure made of brick
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