Word Meanings - ARCHBRICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A wedge-shaped brick used in the building of an arch.

• Wedge-formed
  Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform.
• Wedge-shaped
  Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.
• Wedge-shell
  Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
• Wedge-tailed
  Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood.
• Shapable
  That may be shaped.
• Wedgewise
  In the manner of a wedge.
• Bricking
  of Brick
• BRICKFIELDER
  Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and car
• Brickbat
  A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4.
• Brickkiln
  A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt; or a pile of green bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel for burning them.
• WEDGEFORMED
  Having the form of a wedge; cuneiform. Wedge-formed characters. See Arrow-headed characters, under Arrowheaded.

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