Meanings
- A place where bricks are manufactured, particularly organised as a factory.
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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 ran northwards from the brickworks to an extensive clay pit in which there was a considerable network of sidings.
1960 January 28, Iain D. O. Frew, “The Brora Colliery Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 55, 56Synonyms: brickyard, brick factory
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA place where bricks are manufactured, particularly organised as a factory.
Origin
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