brickyard
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See also: brick-yard and brick yard
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
brickyard (plural brickyards)
- A place where bricks are, or once were, produced or distributed.
- 2007 June 3, Somini Sengupta, “In a New India, an Old Industry Buoys Peasants”, in New York Times[1]:
- Since Vanita was a child, the family has roamed the country in search of work — in construction and road-building, and finally, here to this brickyard.
Synonyms[edit]
- (place where bricks are made): brickworks
Coordinate terms[edit]
- (commodity depots) coalyard, lumberyard, railyard
Translations[edit]
factory where bricks are produced or distributed
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