BRICK IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brick in mean? 

• BRICK IN (verb)
  The verb BRICK IN has 1 sense:

1. wall up with brick

  Familiarity information: BRICK IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRICK IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wall up with brick

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

brick in; brick over; brick up

Hypernyms (to "brick in" is one way to...):

wall in; wall up (enclose with a wall)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

A walk of a few hundred yards brought us to the high building of discoloured brick in Piccadilly, which served the Hamiltons as a town house, and which Nelson used as his head-quarters when business or pleasure called him from Merton.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)