Brick

[brɪk]

Definition

(noun.) rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material.

(noun.) a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy.

Edited by Allison--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.

(n.) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.

(n.) Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).

(n.) A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.

(v. t.) To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.

(v. t.) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them.

Typed by Edmund

Definition

n. an oblong or square piece of burned clay: a loaf of bread in the shape of a brick: (slang) a reliable friend a good fellow.—v.t. to lay or pave with brick.—ns. Brick′bat a piece of brick; Brick′clay a clay used in making bricks; Brick′-dust dust made by pounding bricks a colour like that of brick-dust; Brick′-earth earth used in making bricks; Brick′-field a place where bricks are made; Brick′-kiln a kiln in which bricks are burned; Brick′layer one who lays or builds with bricks; Brick′laying; Brick′maker one whose trade is to make bricks; Brick′-tea tea pressed into cakes; Brick′-work a structure formed of bricks.—Like a brick with good-will.

Edited by Candice