Other forms: bricklayers
A bricklayer is the worker who builds walls from bricks. A skilled bricklayer, hire a bricklayer, the bricklayer's line.
The line and the level do the work: a wall is built to a string stretched between the ends, and every course is checked. A good one lays several hundred bricks a day, and the trade is one of the last where speed and skill are still paid together.
1nounbricklayerThe worker who builds walls from bricks.
“We paid a bricklayer to rebuild the garden wall that fell down in the storm.”
bricklayer is a worker.
Brick plus layer, in Middle English. Brick came into English from Middle Dutch.
Middle English
brekelayeer
English, today
bricklayer
From Middle English brekelayeer, brekelayer, equivalent to brick + layer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA