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brickwork
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brickwork \Brick"work`\, n. Anything made of bricks. Niches in brickwork form the most difficult part of the bricklayer's art. --Tomlinson. The act of building with or laying bricks.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ We need someone to do the brickwork . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Is the pointing of the brickwork in good condition? ▪ Modern houses have their joists supported in metal brackets and do not enter the brickwork . ▪ Much of ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. masonry done with bricks and mortar
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Those parts of items that are made of brick. 2 The quality of the construction of brick built items.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer , using bricks and mortar . Typically, rows of bricks—called courses — are laid on top of one another to build up a structure such as a brick wall . Brick is a popular medium for constructing buildings, and ...
Usage examples of brickwork.
Jimmy hopped over the trickle of filth down the centre of the alley, nodded to the basher who stood just outside, polishing the brickwork with his shoulder, and pushed through the door.
Mahoney, who had seated himself on a chock close by, as a large party of Oriental coolies arrived and began unloading and spreading what appeared to be the brickwork of a house that had got in the way of a big shell.
I toyed with the karabiner and absently followed the thin high-tensile cable that had been hidden in the brickwork.
In the smoggy gloaming, he went through the brickwork warrens of Griss Fell, past householders scrubbing their porches of the grit of machinofacture and graffitied coils, chatting from window to window across the little streets.
Suddenly a section of brickwork shifted, and torchlight shone through, and the girls caught a familiar malty smell and knew where they must be.
This proved, indeed, to be the case, for soon Balbi found the brickwork yielding so rapidly to his efforts that one morning, a week later, Casanova heard three light taps above his head - the preconcerted signal by which they were to assure themselves that their notions of the topography of the prison were correct.
The brickwork was blackened and scorched, and the windows were all smashed, but otherwise it had held together.
Now the paupers were gone, and where the old mansions that had fallen to their use once stood, there towered aloft and abroad those heights and masses of many-storied brickwork for which architecture has yet no proper form and aesthetics no name.
The brickwork was blackened and scorched, and the windows were all smashed, but otherwise it had held together.
James, all I saw was a simple building with undistinguished brickwork and a staid pedimented Ionic doorcase marking the entrance.
Gavril feared that the ancient kas-tel brickwork would not be strong enough to withstand the force of the earthfall and that they would all be crushed.
Here in 1934 -- making another contribution to the riddle of interwoven cultures in Africa--Curle saw triangular niches in turnbled thorn-grown brickwork of a kind which may be seen, to this day, in the brick buildings of Darfur and in other buildings of greater age as far west as Kumbi Saleh, probable site of one of the capitals of ancient Ghana.
For a moment Ossipon imagined the overlighted place changed into a dreadful black hole belching horrible fumes choked with ghastly rubbish of smashed brickwork and mutilated corpses.
The wall was a living brickwork of locksheets, laminated charts, one hundred thousand charts to the inch, the wall preselected and preassembled for all imaginable contingencies of the journey which, each time afresh, took the ship across half-unknown immensities of time and space.
The decoration is all piled on the front, as elaborate a design, often, as Palladio ever dreamt of, but at the side, every cornice and stringpiece stops as short as if it had been sawn off, and the whole side is a flat blank piece of brickwork.