Synonyms:
brick
Meaning: rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material
Synonyms:
brick
Meaning: a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy
Usage examples
Coffee may be roasted in a dripping-pan in a brick oven.
When brick walls were cemented with bitumen they were given great stability.
The brick and stone business blocks, together with the public buildings, were thrown down.
Nor did I,--I saw nothing but what appeared to be an unoccupied ramshackle brick abomination.
"You're a brick, sweetheart," he said heartily, "and I've got a reward for you, a peace offering.
The relation 'loving', as it occurs in the act of believing, is one of the objects--it is a brick in the structure, not the cement.
But though the walls still stood, it was only an empty victory for the fire, as bare brick and smoking ruins are poor food for flames.
At San Jose, another very beautiful city of over 20,000 population, not a single brick or stone building of two stories or over was left standing.
How boundless are the opportunities of Kensington Gardens--the Round Pond, the winding Serpentine, the mysterious seclusion of the Dutch brick Palace!
Except Eridu, where ancient workers quarried sandstone from its sea-shaped ridge, all the cities were built of brick, an excellent clay being found in abundance.