brick yard
Where bricks form
A brick yard is a place where bricks are manufactured or stored.
The term appears both as two words and as one (brickyard).
These facilities historically combined clay pits, kilns, and drying areas: He worked at the brick yard since he was fourteen.
The word also names several famous baseball stadiums built in the early twentieth century.
- kilnOven for hardening clay
- fired clayHeat-hardened earthen material
- clayMoldable earth for ceramics
- mortarGrinding bowl or binder
- factoryIndustrial production facility
forge · chimney · red · dust · pallets · stacked · labor · furnace · smoke stack · masonry · industrial · smokestack · workers · hardened · fire · molds · wheelbarrow · heavy lifting
- brickmakingclay, kiln, firebrick, brickworks, mould
- storage yardsscrapyard
- home storesHome Depot, Lowe's, IKEA, Menards, Ace Hardware
material source/production site
brick yardquarry
Pit for extracting rock
stone quarry · lumber mill · sawmill · steel mill · foundry
manufactured vs. extracted materials
brick yardquarry
Pit for extracting rock
mine · gravel pit · sand pit · marble quarry · granite quarry