brickstonen.
/ˈbrɪkstəʊn/, U.S. /ˈbrɪkˌstoʊn/ A brick. Also: bricks collectively; brickwork.
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c1453 (c1437) Brut (Harl. 53) 579 (MED) Al þe brekstones were gyven to Saynt Mary Chirch.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Macc. x. A Machabeus now & his company..clensed the temple, made another aulter of bricke stone.
1562 P. Whitehorne Certain Waies Orderyng Souldiers f. 44, in tr. N. Machiavelli Arte of Warre Takinge it oute, you shall se it made like vnto a brickstone.
1644 Hulls Managing of Kingdoms Cause 4 From each of these..reared a wall eight yards high, and five yards thick, of brick-stone strongly cemented.
1708 J. MacGregory Geogr. & Hist. Lile 25 'Tis a Rampart Built of Earth..with a Facade of Brick-stone.
1852 Morning Post 16 Feb. 8/2 It was a piece of red brickstone I threw at him, your worship.
1995 ‘E. Mayne’ Heart of Hawk xiv. 185 My cottages are not made of mud and straw, but of brickstone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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