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brick
  1. (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
  2. (uncountable) Considered collectively, as a building material.
  3. (countable) Something shaped like a brick.
  4. (dated) A helpful and reliable person.
  5. (basketball, slang) A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object.
  6. (informal) A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug.
  7. (technology, slang) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
  8. (firearms) A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick.
  9. (poker) A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand.
  10. Synonyms:
  11. Examples:
    1. “He added that a brick had been thrown through the window, and a fire accelerant was thrown in on boxes containing paper documents.”
brickwork
  1. Those parts of items that are made of brick.
  2. The quality of the construction of brick built items.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Station Officer Peter Ashworth said the fire spread inside the building's walls and damaged the brickwork and roof.”
      “Ideally you should point the brickwork after the bricks have been laid long enough for the mortar to start to set.”
      “It featured exuberant decorative patterns, designs in the brickwork and wooden attachments.”
bricklaying
  1. The act of building a wall by laying bricks, usually with cement between the surfaces of the bricks.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The bricklaying process for a mortarless barbecue is much simpler than that of a brick barbecue with mortar.”
      “I've done everything from welding to glass cutting to bricklaying to pay the rent in the past.”
      “The first step into further education can be access courses at local colleges where they will sample work including bricklaying and horticulture.”
bricklayer
  1. A craftsman who builds walls and suchlike out of bricks.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A good bricklayer should be able to calculate the number of bricks needed to build a wall.”
      “He was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and began his working life as a bricklayer.”
      “His father was a carpenter, bricklayer, and farmer, and his mother was a milkmaid.”
brickyard
  1. A factory where bricks are produced or distributed
  2. Examples:
    1. “Heinz started work at the age of 8 in his father's brickyard in Pennsylvania.”
      “A brickyard was established the year of the fire, and limestone and sandstone were quarried from the cliffs.”
      “He and his family lived in a brickyard that had a field kitchen used by the troops of the 29th Infantry Division.”
brickfield
  1. A place where bricks are made; a brickyard.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In an old brickfield, the advance was again stayed by a battery of field guns firing point blank.”
      “Near the brickfield there is that immense windmill, for of course every town must have one.”
      “Nothing is quite so pleasant, so invigorating, nor quite so dangerous as life in these brickfield posts.”
brickman
  1. (regional) A mason who specializes in brickwork.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I hired a skilled brickman to build a beautiful brick patio in my backyard.”
      “I liked the music best when Brickman had accompaniment, such as the string quartet, the electric violin, or Dave Koz's alto sax.”
      “In January 2012, Brickman commanded the top three spots on the Top 10 of Billboard's New Age chart for his albums Love, Romanza and All is Calm.”
brickkiln
  1. A kiln in which bricks are baked.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Agricultural, brickkiln, and domestic workers often were kept virtually as slaves.”
      “Mukhtar Masih said he was booked and arrested by the Manga Mandi police under antinarcotics law in 1994 for taking a bailiff to a brickkiln to recover the detained workers.”
      “More than 40 firefighters were tasked to tackle the inferno at the old Brickkiln site in Derry.”
brickmaking
  1. The manufacture of bricks.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The 'Oxford clays' are valuable for brickmaking when their use is understood, but to the uninitiated they are very troublesome.”
      “The brickmaking shales are those which are sufficiently rich in clay to form a plastic paste when ground and mixed with water.”
      “The chief clay in this System is the gault, a stiff, black, calcareous clay of marine origin chiefly used for brickmaking.”
bricking
  1. The act of pelting with bricks.
brickmanship
  1. The position of being a brickman.
brickmaker
  1. A maker of bricks.
  2. Examples:
    1. “She read 'Alton Locke,' and by way of comment married a national schoolmaster, the son of a brickmaker on her father's estate!”
      “The brickmaker ordered rivets, to the delight of Marlow and the mechanics.”
      “This can be done, with care, for the brickmaker drops to the bottom when disturbed.”
brickworks
  1. A place where bricks are made.
  2. Examples:
    1. “His brickworks went bankrupt, he could not pay his fine and he began to feel thoroughly depressed.”
      “Analysts have been famed for their reticence to come up with profit forecasts, even for a rock-steady business such as a brewery or brickworks.”
      “Cotton manufacturing was the chief industry but there was also a brewery, a tannery and a brickworks.”
brickdust
  1. The dust of bricks.
brickiness
  1. The quality of being bricky.
bricker
  1. someone who makes bricks
  2. Examples:
    1. “The noise was not repeated a third time, but Captain bricker had heard enough to make him believe that someone remained below.”
      “Captain bricker asked Salt for the picture which he intended to take to police headquarters.”
      “Captain bricker cut the young man free, and pulled the gag from his mouth.”
bricky
brickie
  1. (Britain, New Zealand, Australia, slang) A bricklayer.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The young woman sitting opposite me looks tired, tearful and fearful, hiding away inside a baggy shirt, baggier jeans and brickie boots.”
      “This is because a brickie becomes acclimatised to the sun's rays, whereas an office worker is more likely to sunburn.”
      “Many a visiting brickie has succumbed to a heart attack after viewing walling here.”
brickies
  1. plural of brickie
  2. plural of bricky
bricklayings
  1. plural of bricklaying
bricklayers
  1. plural of bricklayer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The Air Service shipped some 3,000 carpenters, bricklayers, and laborers to England to prepare these facilities.”
      “There is already a short supply in some trades, especially those skilled trades such as bricklayers.”
      “There were those who profited from the event, none more so than the tilers, bricklayers and glaziers whose wages trebled.”
brickmakers
  1. plural of brickmaker
brickfields
  1. plural of brickfield
brickyards
  1. plural of brickyard
brickkilns
  1. plural of brickkiln
brickmen
brickings
  1. plural of bricking
brickers
  1. plural of bricker
bricks
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