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- noun Plural form of
brickmaker .
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Examples
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An education doesn't necessarily mean book-learning, either: one of the stipulations made by Edna Adan when she was building her hospital was that the brickmakers teach women their trade.
Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence Halpern, Sue 2009
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Somaliland now has its first women brickmakers; those women now have a marketable skill.
Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence Halpern, Sue 2009
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Han Jiabao calls this a high estimate, deciding that a more reasonable number is probably around 1,000 (based on expenditures divided by wages), but, as he points out, construction also indirectly employed supporting laborers: brickmakers, woodcutters, mortarmakers, etc.
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We accuse scavengers, brickmakers, and gentlemen who devote their energies to the costermongering line, with obtaining money once a – year, under false pretences.
Sketches by Boz 2007
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And I know brickmakers go about working at piecework in different places.
Bleak House 2007
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Some are brickmakers, some carpenters, some shoe-makers, some thatchers.
Wessex Tales 2006
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A practiced workman can make, without a machine, about ten thousand bricks in twelve hours; but in their two days work the five brickmakers on Lincoln Island had not made more than three thousand, which were ranged near each other, until the time when their complete desiccation would permit them to be used in building the oven, that is to say, in three or four days.
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The miners became brickmakers again, then the bricks were brought to the foot of Granite House.
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A practiced workman can make, without a machine, about ten thousand bricks in twelve hours; but in their two days work the five brickmakers on Lincoln Island had not made more than three thousand, which were ranged near each other, until the time when their complete desiccation would permit them to be used in building the oven, that is to say, in three or four days.
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The miners became brickmakers again, then the bricks were brought to the foot of Granite House.
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