BRICKLAYER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bricklayer mean? 

• BRICKLAYER (noun)
  The noun BRICKLAYER has 1 sense:

1. a craftsman skilled in building with bricks

  Familiarity information: BRICKLAYER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRICKLAYER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A craftsman skilled in building with bricks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("bricklayer" is a kind of...):

artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)

 Context examples 

The fellows were not bricklayers, but, as in the old days, they attended all Sunday picnics for the dancing, and the fighting, and the fun.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As I looked out of the coach window, and observed that an old house on Fish-street Hill, which had stood untouched by painter, carpenter, or bricklayer, for a century, had been pulled down in my absence; and that a neighbouring street, of time-honoured insalubrity and inconvenience, was being drained and widened; I half expected to find St. Paul's Cathedral looking older.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)