brickworks

noun

brickworks

noun

Etymology From brick + works.

1

A place where bricks are made.

  • 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 23, Iain D. O. Frew, “The Brora Colliery Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 55, 56:
Synonyms
brickyard
Related terms
brickwork
Coordinate terms
works § Hyponyms

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