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Webster 1913 Edition


Brickkiln

Brick′kilnˊ

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Noun.
A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.

Webster 1828 Edition


Brickkiln

BRICK'KILN

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Noun.
[brick and kiln.] A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt, or a pile of bricks,laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel.

Definition 2024


brickkiln

brickkiln

English

Noun

brickkiln (plural brickkilns)

  1. A kiln in which bricks are baked.
    • 1819, The Examiner (issues 575-626, page 641)
      Are some poor boys brought before him for sleeping in brickkilns, — a circumstance to which they may have been compelled by want of room at home, or the damp and cold nights of autumn [] ?