Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
bricklayer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They were not exactly sailors -- Mr. Mellaire sneeringly called them the "bricklayers" -- but they had successfully refused subservience to the gangster crowd.
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I noticed yesterday a foreman in charge of a building operation vainly trying to call the bricklayers down.
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"bricklayers" -- but they had successfully refused subservience to the gangster crowd.
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"bricklayers" -- but they had successfully refused subservience to the gangster crowd.
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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
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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.
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"They was two of 'em, sir," Richard Giller, one of the "bricklayers," broke in.
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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
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"They was two of 'em, sir," Richard Giller, one of the "bricklayers," broke in.
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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.
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