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Definition of brick:
- 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.
- A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick.
- Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick ( of bread).
- Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
- 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.
- To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.
Synonyms:
miscue, fluff, gaffe, gaff, aggregate, adobe, Roman brick, fumble, screwup, misstep, slip, stone, cement, asbestos, glass brick, inaccuracy, stumble, flub, board, cinder block, mistake, concrete block, clanger, masonry, paved, slipup, goof, boo-boo, boob, trip, fault, blunder, boarding, clinker, brownstone, slab, pressed brick, chunk, oversight, cement block, caulk, lapse, bitumen, bobble, block.
Usage examples:
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About the same time money was raised for a brick church and a brick state- house.
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Cornelius found me there on the afternoon which followed his Shakspearian reading, and he said with some curiosity: " Daisy, what attraction is there in that prospect of brick and smoke?"
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There's a turnstile in the brick wall of the garden, a little iron turnstile- but you know it well, both of you;" and he broke off with a laugh.