brickyard

noun

brick·​yard ˈbrik-ˌyärd How to pronounce brickyard (audio)
: a place where bricks are made

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Today, the glory and grit of St. Louis brick has made the material a target that can fetch premium prices, and is coveted by salvagers, brickyards, brazen thieves and, eventually, builders even out of state. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2025 Their compound is near the capital, Dhaka, along a highway of brickyards and rice paddies, and not in the countryside where violent seizures of land often go unheralded. Simon Montlake, Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2025 The family eventually expanded into Des Moines with another brickyard and also delved into hosiery and producing paper for the Iowa State Register — the early iterations of the Des Moines Register. Linh Ta, Axios, 21 Jan. 2025 The family lived in a small house behind a mercadito that her godmother owned in Barrio Simons, a neighborhood in what’s now Montebello that stood next to one of the biggest brickyards in the world. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023 See All Example Sentences for brickyard

Word History

First Known Use

1618, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of brickyard was in 1618

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“Brickyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brickyard. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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