bricklayer , also: brickie BrE

He went to school for just a year and became a bricklayer.

By 2006, he had moved back home and was working as a bricklayer with his father.

As from the beginning, so to the end, everything had gone wrong with the Bricklayer.

He graduated from local public schools and became a bricklayer.

His father, a bricklayer by trade worked very hard to put food on the table, even when there were no jobs available.

He left school at the age of eleven and became a bricklayer.

His father was a bricklayer, who later established a small building firm.

Before Idol, he worked with his father as a bricklayer.

He attended the common schools and was a bricklayer by trade.

He joined the building trade on leaving school and became a bricklayer.

I'm unemployed at the moment, but I could never go back to being a bricklayer.

He also worked as a bricklayer and a policeman for a short time.

Her father is thought to have been a bricklayer, and after his death, the family became impoverished.

He failed at every grade in school and became a bricklayer.

A bricklayer by summer, he's a strong man who can take on the area to its extremes.

From my window I can see some bricklayers working on the facade of the house next door.

"I'm not going to look at it like I was a bricklayer," he said.

After leaving school he was employed as a bricklayer and later set up his own business.

No time is lost in waiting for other trades, such as bricklayers, to start work.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the bricklayers convention.

"Then send for the bricklayer and have it seen to," said his master.

Shannon became a bricklayer for a few years until he was eventually able to return to music in 1977.

He may have made a living as a bricklayer and/or electrician.

I looked back to the spot where we had tilted the Bricklayer.

Their mood is nothing at all like that of the bricklayer who, in 1968, asked my father, "What's going to happen now?"

Had a job as a brickie, but the building trade's taken a bad turn .

The champion was named brickie of the month and achieved great renown.

He tells you he is a farm labourer or sometimes a brickie.

Plus, a description like that, wouldn't surprise me if he was a brickie.'

Later, the duo went on to be nicknamed, "Team Brickie".

The latter's clay pit was much used by local children as a play area known as "The Brickie".

While "Nellie's" affair with the brickie is depicted, the affair does not produce a child.

Maddox went about promoting the message of Team Brickie by appearing at various times on commentary stations.

It's at times like that you think of quitting the business and becoming a postman or a brickie - anything that's vaguely normal.'

Er one's in the, works for himself, he's brickie, and there's one works in the glazer.

Just a brickie, 'e were, but sort o' gentle."

In British and Australian English, a bricklayer is colloquially known as a "brickie".

He, he's a brickie isn't he?

Lol, a former council brickie, said: 'Boxing has been wonderful for me and it can be for the kids too.

Lord Gowrie counts himself a brickie, though no particular fan of Mr. Andre's.

Sharp told McEwan that he was a "brickie"-a bricklayer-who had been raised by loving parents.

"My father, unlike Owen in almost every aspect, suffered like him from TB and had been a brickie and decorator before the war.

A brickie does not college N B Qs he needs to build his first house and first novel and immediately becoming an international best seller.

He also gave us the name of an excellent brickie who had worked with d-i-yers before and was to give us some good advice, as well as building straight walls.

"Bill the Brickie", which showed a bricklayer "building" words out of bricks, demonstrating the use of units of words or morphemes (see a clip on YouTube).

Jason Steger, 'Mrs Wren and the brickie: The veil lifted', the Age (Melbourne), 12 Nov 2005; online.

She understood the principles of construction as well as any foreman builder and woe betide any carpenter, cooper, brickie, plumber or engineer who tried to pull the wool over her eyes.

He introduces many different characters including News Hound, Bill the Brickie, Ellie (Ollie's Sister), Gussy Gunge, Lazer Larry and the Magic E Magician.

For the latter programme he also composed the cult favourite "Magic E" song as well as the popular education songs "Bill the Brickie", "Dog Detective" and "The Punctuation Song".

So, too, are the homes of our non-human brethren, creatures of every kind, from bashful badgers through gallant bowerbirds to humble termites - all of which have escaped the scourge of the professional brickie.