Crossword clues for brickyard
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brickyard \Brick"yard`\, n. A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. A factory where bricks are produced or distributed
WordNet
n. a place where bricks are made and sold [syn: brickfield]
Wikipedia
A brickyard or brickfield is a place or yard where the earthen building material called bricks are made, fired, and stored, or sometimes sold or otherwise distributed from. Brick makers work in a brick yard. A brick yard may be constructed near natural sources of clay or on or near a construction site if necessity or design requires the bricks to be made locally.
Usage examples of "brickyard".
When I got back to our house on Brickyard Row, I kicked open the back door and carried trails of them with me as I stomped into the kitchen.
I lived, the third in the terrace along Brickyard Row, with a steep drop through scratchy copses of birch into lowtown and with many other Rows and Backs and Ways slanting up Coney Mound behind, had stood for most of the Third Age of Industry by the time my parents moved in.
And deep down, beneath everything, rising up through the bricks and timbers of Brickyard Row, was that other sound.
The thin doors of the house seemed to tear themselves open for me, driven by the same force by which I was driven until I found myself standing, doubled-over and breathless, outside and alone on the cobbles of Brickyard Row.
The younger children came out from their houses to run beside it and I watched from my tiny attic window as its shining panels halted on Brickyard Row.
Life, seemingly, became normal again, although our neighbours on either side left Brickyard Row, and Father never slept in the front bedroom again, although the dragonlice vanished from its walls.
We had had a washing plunger exactly like this one in our house on Brickyard Row.
The arrangement of the stairs in this house was different to my own on Brickyard Row a few streets away.
Several kilns of brick turned out badly, so that the brickyard fell behind with its orders, thus delaying the work a few weeks.
And one minute later the brickyard whistle blew, and Papa jumped up and put on his clothes and ran down to the brickyard to light the furnace.
The place was ugly as a brickyard and cold as a tomb, and it had a character, too, which Sir Turnour was conscious of but could not define.
It was a piece of wasteland on the edge of a gully with a brickyard on one side of it and a gravel pit on the other.
We can clear away all this litter and plant a catalpa tree to hide the brickyard and a hedge of copernicus or nux vomica to hide the gravel pit, and some bright flowers to hide the hedge.
Short and wide he seemed, he took a fresh start and made it across the brickyard, the other two, sort of long and thin, just behind him.
You walk in a prison like the Brickyard and you be twenty-one years old and you better keep a tight ass and your head tucked down real low to the ground or somebody he gone knock it off cause thats his kick.