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Stacking rectangles into civilizations, one trowel-flick at a time, since before writing existed.
means The trade or act of building structures by setting bricks in courses and bonding them together with mortar.
from A plain compound of "brick" and "lay." "Brick" came into English in the late Middle Ages, borrowed from Old French "brique," itself likely of Germanic origin and possibly related to the notion of a "broken" or shaped piece. "Lay" is deep native stock, from Old English "lecgan," meaning to place or set down — the same root that gives us "ledge" and "low." Put them side by side and you get exactly what the word does: one who lays bricks, the act named as bluntly as the work is done.
- Speed record
- Over 900 bricks laid in a single hour
- Ancient craft
- Mud bricks predate written language by millennia
- Robot rivals
- Machines now lay walls humans still finish by hand
- Bond patterns
- Flemish, English, stretcher — each a structural signature
- Churchill's hobby
- The wartime PM laid bricks to relax
great wall of china — constructed over 2,000 years using millions of bricks across northern china, built by dynasties including ming (1368-1644)
fletcher's brick factory — historic victorian-era factory in rosebery, sydney that trained generations of australian bricklayers from 1880s-1970s