Word Meaning

brick definition and meaning

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.

Crossword clues for brick

- Building block
- Fired-clay block
- widely used in construction