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▪ I. briquette, n.|brɪˈkɛt, ˈbrɪkɪt|
Also briquet.
[Fr. briquette in same sense, dim. of brique, brick. The F. word briquet (which is not a dim. of brique) has not this meaning.]
1. A block or slab of artificial stone.
1883Hampstead Express 7 Apr. 1/2 Patent Victoria Stone—Tensile Strain, average of 10 briquets (see Reid, on Concrete), 794 lbs. per square inch.
2. A block of compressed coal-dust, usu. with addition of a binding substance such as pitch.
1884Pall Mall G. 8 Jan. 9/2 Works for the compressing of coal briquettes. 1886Manchester City News 30 Oct., The manufacture of briquettes, or machine-made coal, consists simply of the transformation of ‘smudge’, or very small coal..into solid blocks, weighing about 111/4 lb. each. This result is attained by adding to the coal about eight per cent. of pitch. 1963Ann. Reg. 1962 509 Exports of coal, coke, and briquettes decreased.
3. A small block of ice-cream. Cf. brickette.
1927W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 16 Cyclists selling ice-cream briquettes.
▪ II. briquette, v.|brɪˈkɛt|
[f. the n.]
trans. To form (coal-dust, etc.) into briquettes. So briquetted ppl. a., briquetting vbl. n.
1898Eng. Mechanic 7 Oct. 194/1 Briquetting Sawdust. 1916Lantsberry tr. Franke's Handbk. Briquetting I. 621 Briquetting of Sawdust, and other Waste Wood. These materials can generally be briquetted fairly readily without a binding material. 1928Daily Tel. 25 Sept. 11/5 The Yallourn briquetting plant of the State Electricity Commission of Victoria. 1962Times 26 Mar. 5/3 They also intended to develop a briquetted fuel. |