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unˈbrick, v. [un-2 4.] trans. To remove bricks from; to open up, set free, by the removal of bricks.
1598Florio, Smattonare, to vnpaue, to vnbrick, to pull downe bricks. 1873Whitney Other Girls xx, Couldn't the fire-place be unbricked? 1900Academy 4 Aug. 90/2 A climber had stuck there [in a narrow chimney] and died before he could be unbricked. fig.1894B. Pain Kindn. Celestial 179 Three days after the engagement he had unbricked ‘a bright and sunny temperament’ in my father. |