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brick·lay·er

(brĭk′lā′ər)

One who builds with bricks.

brick′lay′ing n.

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bricklayer

(ˈbrɪkˌleɪə)

(Professions) a person trained or skilled in laying bricks

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Noun

bricklayer - a craftsman skilled in building with bricks

artisan, journeyman, artificer, craftsman - a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

Translations

بنَّاء آجُرّيّبنّـاء بالطوب

zedník

murer

muurari

zidar

múrari, múrhleîslumaîur

muratore

煉瓦職人

벽돌공

murare

ช่างปูน

duvarcı

thợ nề

砌砖工人砖匠

bricklayer

[ˈbrɪkˌleɪəʳ] N → albañil mf

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bricklayer

[ˈbrɪkleɪə^r] n → maçon m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bricklayer

[ˈbrɪkˌle/ɛ7əʳ] n → muratore m

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

brick

(brik) noun

(a block of) baked clay used for building. a pile of bricks; (also adjective) a brick wall.

ˈbrickbat noun

an insult. They hurled brickbats at the politician throughout his speech.

ˈbricklayer noun

a person who builds (houses etc) with bricks.

bricklayer

→ بنَّاء آجُرّيّ zedník murer Maurer χτίστης τούβλων albañil muurari maçon zidar muratore 煉瓦職人 벽돌공 metselaar murer murarz pedreiro каменщик murare ช่างปูน duvarcı thợ nề 砖匠

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"Then send for the bricklayer and have it seen to," said his master.

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A Bricklayer earnestly recommended bricks as affording the best material for an effective resistance.

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A few minutes after, a Bricklayer passed by, carrying a pail full of plaster on his shoulder.

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When Ben was about two years old his mother married again, and this second husband was a bricklayer. Ben, however, tells us that his own father was a gentleman, belonging to a good old Scottish Border family, and that he had lost all his estates in the reign of Queen Mary.

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If she had been the wife of a bricklayer, she is the sort of woman who would have been kept in perfect order by a vigorous and regular application of her husband's fist.

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Our mothers could neither of them exactly ascertain who were our Father, though it is generally beleived that Philander, is the son of one Philip Jones a Bricklayer and that my Father was one Gregory Staves a Staymaker of Edinburgh.

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"I'm my own contractor, my own carpenter, and my own bricklayer, and I shall be sixty-seven come Michaelmas," he added, by no means irrelevantly.

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More than once, too, he came officially into contact with the Regimental colours, which looked like the lining of a bricklayer's hat on the end of a chewed stick.

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"Build a house round her," they cried, and at once everybody perceived that this was the thing to do; in a moment a hundred fairy sawyers were among the branches, architects were running round Maimie, measuring her; a bricklayer's yard sprang up at her feet, seventy-five masons rushed up with the foundation stone and the Queen laid it, overseers were appointed to keep the boys off, scaffoldings were run up, the whole place rang with hammers and chisels and turning lathes, and by this time the roof was on and the glaziers were putting in the windows.

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Tom is only a bricklayer, but he's real good- tempered.

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As I looked out of the coach window, and observed that an old house on Fish-street Hill, which had stood untouched by painter, carpenter, or bricklayer, for a century, had been pulled down in my absence; and that a neighbouring street, of time-honoured insalubrity and inconvenience, was being drained and widened; I half expected to find St.

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What if it is the Bricklayers? I'll have gentlemen friends there, and so'll you.