Meaning of bricklet | Babel Free

Definitions

A small brick.

Examples

“Alas, time here hath used a pestle, not a scythe, and these remains of mortal buildings are immortal—smash! I got a little marble piece of a flooring, a tiny bricklet in some vast mosaic pavement:—it is the only whole bit I have seen, except the few larger fragments.”

“At the expiration of twenty-four hours they are tested by the amount of weight that may be suspended from each bricklet without pulling it apart. Under the test adopted for the Brooklyn bridge they are required to have a “ tensile strength” sufficient to resist a “ pull” of 60 pounds. The majority of the daily tests largely exceed this, resisting a pull varying from 60 to 130 pounds. A bricklet made last September was recently tested (April, 1880), and was not broken until the pull equaled 900 pounds”

“For some time it has been customary in this country to confine the laboratory investigation of clay to a chemical analysis of it, with perhaps the burning of a hand-molded bricklet in an assayer's muffle.”

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