brick-kiln
(ˈbrɪk-kɪln)
Forms: 5 brykekyl, 6 bricke keele, brycke kylne, 7 brick(e-kill, brick(e-kilne, (brickhil), 7–8 brickill, 8– brickkiln.
A kiln or furnace for burning bricks.
| 1481 [Implied in brick-kilner]. 1552 Huloet, Brycke kylne, fornax lateraria. 1580 Baret Alv. B 1234 A bricke keele, fornax lateritia. 1611 Bible 2 Sam. xii. 31 Passe through the bricke-kilne. 1701 Phil. Trans. XXIII. 1089 The burning of Brick in a Brickill. 1875 Ure Dict. Arts I. 524 The common brick kiln is a rectangular building. |
Hence brick-kilner, a brick-burner or brickmaker.
| 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (1841) 171 Item, to the brykekyler of Eppswich viij.d. |