Definition of Bricks

1. Noun. (plural of brick) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bricks

1. brick [v] - See also: brick

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bricks

brickleness
brickles
brickless
bricklike
brickly
brickmaker
brickmaker's anaemia
brickmakers
brickmaking
brickman
brickmanship
brickmen
brickmould
brickmoulds
brickor mortis
bricks (current term)
bricks and clicks
bricks and mortar
bricks up
brickshaped
brickwise
brickwork
brickworks
bricky
brickyard
brickyards
bricolage
bricolages
bricole
bricoles

Literary usage of Bricks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"It is formed by laying the first course with whole bricks; the next course the bricks are cut across for the outside brick, and the remainder filled with ..."

2. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"The simplest, and at the same time one of the oldest, branches of the primeval art of working in clay is the manufacture of bricks (laten-*, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1844)
"An ingenious contrivance for moulding bricks mechanically, is said to be employed near Washington, in America. This machine moulds 30000 in n day's work of ..."

4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1855)
"The reason of this is, that if the bricks are well saturated with ... On the other hand, if the bricks are put up dry, they immediately take all the ..."

5. The Useful Arts: Considered in Connexion with the Applications of Science by Jacob Bigelow (1853)
"bricks.—The use of bricks, in building, may be traced to the ... The earliest bricks were dried in the sun, and were never exposed to great heat, ..."

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