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Definition of Bricks
1. brick [v] - See also: brick
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bricks
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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