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bricklayer

[ UK /bɹˈɪkle‍ɪɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹɪˌkɫeɪɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a craftsman skilled in building with bricks

How To Use bricklayer In A Sentence

  • His father was an Italian immigrant, a bricklayer and latterly a school caretaker. Times, Sunday Times
  • Since then, other building trades, such as the cement masons and bricklayers, have conceded similar changes in their labor contracts with the city.
  • But learning to ride a wave requires a methodical bricklayer's approach.
  • Below, a couple of men were sewing the "bricklayer's" body in canvas preparatory to the sea burial. Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
  • There were those who profited from the event, none more so than the tilers, bricklayers and glaziers whose wages trebled.
  • Let him adopt one; buy him drawing-paper and a tee-square at once, and teach him that the noblest work of creation is (unless it be a bricklayer or builder) an architect. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920
  • All those chimney sweeps and ribbon girls, ragmen and hook-nosed Jews, bricklayers and Highland warriors, Turkish dancers and London match girls? The Terror
  • They can get good apprenticeships, they can earn a lot of money being a bricklayer, plasterer or hairdresser. Times, Sunday Times
  • Carpenters gained a real-wage improvement of 10 percent and bricklayers one of 14 percent between 1750-4 and 1788-92.
  • Born in London the posthumous son of a clergyman and trained by his stepfather as a bricklayer, Jonson became a mercenary, then an actor and leading playwright.
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