The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brick \Brick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bricked; p. pr. & vb. n. Bricking.]
To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.
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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.
To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.
Brisk \Brisk\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Bricked; p. pr. & vb. n. Bricking.] To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of brick English)
Usage examples of "bricking".
Then the builders had turned their ingenuity to bricking up old openings, and chipping out new ones, then bricking up the new ones and re-opening the old, or making newer ones yet.
Before our arrival the Riga Jews, at least the 2000 of them left, had done the bricking-off work, so the area left to our transport of just over 5000 men, women, and children was spacious.
Materialism, loss of belief, the cataclysms of two world wars and the horror of mass death were bricking them up, pushing the Realm back, relegating the Sidh to the status of dream and fancy.