brickmaker

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who makes bricks, especially by preparing clay and molding, drying, or firing it

   The brickmaker tested the clay before loading the shaped bricks into the kiln.

A compound of brick + maker, recorded since Middle English. Brick came through Middle Dutch or Middle Low German, while maker descends from Old English macian, 'to make.' The occupation precedes mechanized brick production.

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