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bricklayer | American Dictionary

bricklayer
noun[ C ]
us/ˈbrɪkˌleɪ·ər/
a person whose job is building walls or buildings using bricks

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For example, a bricklayer will offer to build a wall or a house extension if supplied with some bricks.
So from floor to floor the teams of bricklayers, stonemasons, smiths and carpenters worked together, eventually to reach the roof.
This corresponds to giving our bricklayer a credit card and telling him to buy the resources he needs.
Also in the sample were two tavernkeepers, two construction workers, a bricklayer and a brick maker.
For instance, a bricklayer receives so many dollars a day in the community; so with the carpenter or any other mechanic.
Most, as in any society, were labourers, artisans, craftsmen: dockworkers, blacksmiths, bricklayers, plasterers, caterers and cigar rollers.
They sent me to work on knocking the brick lining out of a blast furnace and labouring for the bricklayers replacing it.
The bricklayer carrying most of the weight is standing on a tread that was put in only a few minutes earlier.
Nevertheless, certain professions stand out as contributing more than their share of rebels, among them the building trades (carpenters, plasterers, bricklayers, painters), drapers' assistants, creamery workers, hairdressers, and teachers.
According to several contemporaries, the scarcity of skilled carpenters, bricklayers, and tailors in the province meant that they commanded wages of £60 or even £70 sterling per year.
There is no adequate reason for such a conservative disregard of a material which has the virtue of not calling for skilled bricklayers, who are costly and unobtainable.
Construction workers, be they painters, carpenters, bricklayers, or steelworkers, are organized into guilds and unions that are very strong and able to demand very high wages.
These included carpenters and bricklayers, plant operators, electricians, asphalt gang labourers and site staff.
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