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brickbat
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Definition:Defn: A piece or fragment of a brick.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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So whilst me and Jim filed away at the pens on a brickbat apiece, Jim a-making his'n out of the brass and I making mine out of the spoon,
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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she aired them herself and blued them when they came home from the wash and ironed them and she had a brickbat to keep the iron on because she wouldn't trust those washerwomen as far as she'd see them scorching the things.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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'Well, Master Copperfield!' said Uriah, meekly turning to me. 'The thing hasn't took quite the turn that might have been expected, for the old Scholar—what an excellent man!—is as blind as a brickbat; but this family's out of the cart, I think!'
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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