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| brick |
any object resembling a brick. [3/6 definitions] |
| brickbat |
a piece of brick, esp. one used as a projectile or weapon. |
| brick cheese |
a brick-shaped semisoft American cheese. |
| briquette |
a small brick or cube of charcoal or compressed coal dust, used as fuel in cooking. |
| clinker1 |
a hard brick used for paving. [1/2 definitions] |
| curb |
a usu. raised border of concrete, stone, or brick along the outer edge of a paved street or sidewalk. [1/4 definitions] |
| Dutch oven |
a brick oven with preheated walls for cooking. [1/3 definitions] |
| firebrick |
a heat-resistant brick, esp. one used in the construction of a furnace, oven, or the like. |
| half-timbered |
of a house or other building, having an exposed framework of vertical, horizontal, or diagonal timbers, with the spaces in between filled with plaster or brick. |
| header |
a brick or stone laid across a wall so that its short end is exposed. (Cf. stretcher.) [1/5 definitions] |
| kiln |
a furnace or oven for burning lime, hardening pottery or brick, drying lumber, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
| mason |
a person skilled in building with stone, brick, or cement. [1/3 definitions] |
| stringcourse |
a narrow horizontal course of stone or brick, often articulated or carved, that is set into the outside of a building as a design element. |
| tailing |
that part of a projecting board, brick, or the like that is held in a wall. [1/2 definitions] |
| vault1 |
an arched construction of stone, concrete, brick, or the like that forms a roof or ceiling, as in some churches. [1/7 definitions] |
| veneer |
a facing of one material, such as brick, applied to another material, such as wood, for protection or ornament. [1/6 definitions] |
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