Forms: 5 brykekyl, 6 bricke keele, brycke kylne, 7 brick(e-kill, brick(e-kilne, (brickhil), 7–8 brickill, 8– brick-kiln. 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.
