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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