Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar in various forms; the art or occupation of laying bricks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of building a wall by
laying bricks , usually withcement between the surfaces of the bricks.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the craft of laying bricks
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Examples
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His bricklaying is a little rusty, but passable as he checks out the foreman who's under suspicion.
Archive 2007-11-01 Divers 2007
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His bricklaying is a little rusty, but passable as he checks out the foreman who's under suspicion.
No Colder Place Divers 2007
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All they do is to enable seniors to boast that their staff are ‘qualified’; IMHO they are of extremely limited use outside manual skills areas such as bricklaying and joinery.
“Ruralshire Constabulary to get TASER on the front line” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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However, whilst he believes that in terms of a stereotypical male job such as bricklaying, women should not be paid the same as men (obviously showing his sexist conception of what women should really be doing – kitchen and bedroom) that men however, SHOULD get the same amount of money as women for working in a cantine.
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However, whilst he believes that in terms of a stereotypical male job such as bricklaying, women should not be paid the same as men (obviously showing his sexist conception of what women should really be doing – kitchen and bedroom) that men however, SHOULD get the same amount of money as women for working in a cantine.
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It is perfectly obvious that in any decent occupation (such as bricklaying or writing books) there are only two ways (in any special sense) of succeeding.
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What they do: A broad range of jobs that require workers to possess specialized skills, usually gained by apprenticeship, such as bricklaying, carpentry, cabinet making, masonry, plumbing and welding.
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Assistance for Grass Roots Projects was to equip disadvantaged jobless men and woman of Soweto with a one-year course in basic building skills such as bricklaying, plastering/tiling, roof finishing and plumbing.
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It is perfectly obvious that in any decent occupation (such as bricklaying or writing books) there are only two ways (in any special sense) of succeeding.
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The University and College Union (UCU) warned that some colleges were losing as much as a quarter of their adult learning budgets and may be forced to turn away hundreds of would-be students in courses such as bricklaying, care work and catering.
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