brickmaker
Molds building blocks
A brickmaker is someone who makes bricks—forming clay into rectangular blocks and firing them in kilns.
The trade was once common enough that Brickmaker survives as a surname.
The word appears in contexts ranging from ancient construction to industrial manufacturing: His grandfather was a brickmaker in the old country.
Moldable earth for ceramics
- moldForm-giving container
- shapingGiving something its form
- dryingMoisture removal process
- firingTerminating employment
kiln · handmade · wedging · extruder · greenware · curing · stacking · forming
Moldable earth for ceramics
- loamFertile soil mixture
- shaleCompacted clay sediment
- sandFine rock particles
- waterClear essential liquid
straw · mud · adobe · calcium · silica · organic · mineral · aggregate
Terminating employment
- heatTransferred thermal energy
- temperatureMeasured heat intensity
- fireboxFuel-burning enclosure
- flueChimney's inner passage
chamber · chimney · firebrick · insulation · thermocouple · pyrometer · fuel · coal
Very old indeed
- MesopotamiaTigris-Euphrates river region
- EgyptNortheastern African nation
- RomanOf ancient Italy's capital
- medievalOf the Middle Ages
industrial · handmade · traditional · guild · laborer · brickfield · migration · slavery
clay
Moldable earth for ceramics
firing · kiln · handmade · wedging · extruder · greenware · curing · stacking · forming · pressing
clay
Moldable earth for ceramics
water · straw · mud · adobe · calcium · silica · organic · mineral · aggregate · admixture
firing
Terminating employment
- heatTransferred thermal energy
- temperatureMeasured heat intensity
- fireboxFuel-burning enclosure
flue · chamber · chimney · firebrick · insulation · thermocouple · pyrometer · fuel · coal · wood
ancient
Very old indeed
- MesopotamiaTigris-Euphrates river region
- EgyptNortheastern African nation
- RomanOf ancient Italy's capital
medieval · industrial · handmade · traditional · guild · laborer · brickfield · migration · slavery · indentured
- craftspeoplepotter, weaver, blacksmith, artisan, potters
- ancient occupationssoldier, merchant, farmer, shepherd, carpenter
- colonial tradesblacksmith, carpenter, cooper, cobbler, silversmith
- craftsmenblacksmith, carpenter, cobbler, mason, weaver
- Victorian Jobschimney sweep, milliner, housemaid, blacksmith, cobbler
- Ancient Egyptianspharaoh, scribe, embalmer, priest, priestess
brickmakerbricklayer
Tradesperson laying mortared blocks
mason · stonemason · tiler · builder · construction worker