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  • noun Plural form of bricklayer.

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Examples

  • They were not exactly sailors -- Mr. Mellaire sneeringly called them the "bricklayers" -- but they had successfully refused subservience to the gangster crowd.

    The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896

  • I noticed yesterday a foreman in charge of a building operation vainly trying to call the bricklayers down.

    My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 1906

  • "bricklayers" -- but they had successfully refused subservience to the gangster crowd.

    CHAPTER XXX 2010

  • "bricklayers" -- but they had successfully refused subservience to the gangster crowd.

    Chapter 30 1914

  • At the other end of the ship -- and I may as well give the roster, are: the second mate, either to be called Mellaire or Waltham, a strong man of our own breed but a renegade; the three gangsters, killers and jackals, Bert Rhine, Nosey Murphy, and Kid Twist; the Maltese Cockney and Tony the crazy Greek; Frank Fitzgibbon and Richard Giller, the survivors of the trio of "bricklayers"; Anton Sorensen and Lars

    CHAPTER XLIII 2010

  • Mr. Pike emerged from the booby-hatch and with an unaimed shot brought down Bill Quigley, one of the "bricklayers," who fell at my feet.

    CHAPTER XLII 2010

  • "They was two of 'em, sir," Richard Giller, one of the "bricklayers," broke in.

    CHAPTER XXXV 2010

  • At the other end of the ship -- and I may as well give the roster, are: the second mate, either to be called Mellaire or Waltham, a strong man of our own breed but a renegade; the three gangsters, killers and jackals, Bert Rhine, Nosey Murphy, and Kid Twist; the Maltese Cockney and Tony the crazy Greek; Frank Fitzgibbon and Richard Giller, the survivors of the trio of "bricklayers"; Anton Sorensen and Lars

    Chapter 43 1914

  • "They was two of 'em, sir," Richard Giller, one of the "bricklayers," broke in.

    Chapter 35 1914

  • Mr. Pike emerged from the booby-hatch and with an unaimed shot brought down Bill Quigley, one of the "bricklayers," who fell at my feet.

    Chapter 42 1914

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