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bricklayer

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Occupations, Construction
brick·lay·er /ˈbrɪkˌleɪə $ -ər/ (also brickie /ˈbrɪki/ British English informal) noun [countable]  BOTBCsomeone whose job is to build walls, buildings etc with bricks 泥瓦匠,砌砖工人bricklaying noun [uncountable]
Examples from the Corpus
bricklayerSoane was born in Goring on Thames, where his father was a bricklayer and he began his career as an errand-boy.Carpenters gained a real-wage improvement of 10 percent and bricklayers one of 14 percent between 1750-4 and 1788-92.In 1910 Hilton Anderson's foreman bricklayer was killed when he fell while demolishing a brick kiln.Our other new signing is local bricklayer, Billy Lugg.All were men, one of them only 12 years old, and all were farmers of bricklayers.There were about forty men in the team of bricklayers that built Worldwide Plaza.But again, as with the lintels, the union did not allow the bricklayers to use a plumb line.One of the bricklayers jumped out of the truck and tried to run.
brick·lay·er nounChineseSyllable
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bricklayer
bricklayer /ˈbrɪkˌleɪə $ -ər/ (also brick‧ie /ˈbrɪki/ British English informal) noun [countable]
someone whose job is to build walls, buildings etc with bricks
—bricklaying noun [uncountable]


brick·lay·erBrE /ˈbrɪkleɪə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbrɪkleɪər/ 🔊 (also BrE, informal brickie) nouna person whose job is to build walls, etc. with bricks 砌砖工;瓦工 brick·lay·ing BrE /ˈbrɪkleɪɪŋ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbrɪkleɪɪŋ/ 🔊 noun [uncountable]