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▪ I. brickbat|ˈbrɪkbæt|
Also 6–7 brickbatt.
[See brick n.1 and bat n.2]
1. a. A piece or fragment of a brick; properly, according to Gwilt, less than one half of its length. It is the typical ready missile, where stones are scarce. Also attrib.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. III. 329 She sent a brickbat after him, and hit him on the back. 1597S. Finche in Hist. Croydon App. (1783) 153 They have filled up that trenche with..brickbatts, and rubbushe. 1726Amherst Terræ Fil. l. 269 A very numerous mob..assaulted the room..with brickbats and stones. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 355 The three-quarter brick, or brick-bat, is called a closer. 1871Dixon Tower IV. xxvii. 288 Mud and brick-bats greeted the returning guards. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. vii. 196 The continuous flow of the mental stream is sacrificed, and in its place an atomism, a brickbat plan of construction, is preached.
b. comb. brickbat-cheese.
1784J. Twamley Dairying 59 To make brick bat Cheese..put it into a wooden mould in the shape of a brick, press it a little, then dry it. 1861Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Management 809 Brickbat cheese has nothing remarkable except its form.
c. fig. An uncomplimentary remark; adverse criticism.
1642Milton Apol. Smect. (1851) 275, I beseech ye friends, ere the brick-bats flye, resolve me and yourselves, is it blasphemy..for me to answer a slovenly wincer. 1929Daily Express 7 Nov. 17/5 And now for the brickbats. 1955[see bouquet 1 b]. 1966Listener 30 June 960/3 There were some much-needed brickbats thrown at our hero's wife.
2. Astr. (See quots.) colloq.
1892Ranyard Proctor's Old & New Astr. 640 Clerk Maxwell used to describe the matter of the rings [of Saturn] as a shower of brickbats, amongst which there would inevitably be continual collisions taking place. 1898A. M. Clerke et al. Astr. 340 It may be that collisions are infrequent in this conglomeration of ‘brickbats’. 1926H. C. Macpherson Mod. Astr. 78.
▪ II. ˈbrickˌbat, v.
[f. prec. n.: cf. to stone.]
trans. To pelt with brickbats.
1884Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 27 Oct. 7 The Republican procession was brickbatted. |