BRICKWORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brickwork mean? 

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

1. masonry done with bricks and mortar

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRICKWORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Masonry done with bricks and mortar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

masonry (structure built of stone or brick by a mason)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brickwork"):

nogging (rough brick masonry used to fill in the gaps in a wooden frame)

 Context examples 

Baker Street was like an oven, and the glare of the sunlight upon the yellow brickwork of the house across the road was painful to the eye.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)