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Shift :: Shift (v. t.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints..

Oven :: Oven (n.) A place arched over with brick or stonework, and used for baking, heating, or drying; hence, any structure, whether fixed or portable, which may be heated for baking, drying, etc.; esp., now, a chamber in a stove, used for baking or roasting..

Pavior :: Pavior (n.) A brick or slab used for paving.

Brick :: Brick (v. t.) To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them..

Roughing-in :: Roughing-in (n.) The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it..

Burn :: Burn (n.) The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn..

Trumpeting :: Trumpeting (n.) A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft.

Brickyard :: Brickyard (n.) A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place..

Page :: Page (n.) A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack.

Course :: Course (n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.

Brick :: Brick (n.) Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick..

Dam :: Dam (n.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace..

Scour :: Scour (v. t.) To rub hard with something rough, as sand or Bristol brick, especially for the purpose of cleaning; to clean by friction; to make clean or bright; to cleanse from grease, dirt, etc., as articles of dress..

Bond :: Bond (n.) The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break jo

Grout :: Grout (n.) A thin, coarse mortar, used for pouring into the joints of masonry and brickwork; also, a finer material, used in finishing the best ceilings. Gwilt..

Nog :: Nog (n.) A wooden block, of the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork..

Arch Brick :: Arch brick () A wedge-shaped brick used in the building of an arch.

Wastrel :: Wastrel (n.) Anything cast away as bad or useless, as imperfect bricks, china, etc..

Bonder :: Bonder (n.) A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone.

Bed :: Bed (n.) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile..

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