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mudbrick

n. adobe brick; unfired brick made from mud or clay mixed with straw

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Mudbrick

A mudbrick is a brick, made of a mixture of loam, mud, sand and water mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw.

In warm regions with very little timber available to fuel a kiln, bricks were generally sun dried. In some cases brickmakers extended the life of mud bricks by putting fired bricks on top or covering them with stucco.

Usage examples of "mudbrick".

The mudbrick walls had all but eroded away, leaving nothing but shin-high ridges laid out in a geometric pattern around an old, dried-up well.

Support beams were giving way, mudbrick walls tumbling, cut stone shattering explosively in the blistering heat.

The buildings in Rhakotis were ancient only in the sense that the collapsed mudbrick of one house served its successors as a cellar.

Six of the heavy wooden beams which braced the mudbrick construction were festooned with hanged corpses.

The cannonball buried itself in the crumbly mudbrick, without so much as shaking the tower thirty yards away from the impact.

Palms, their boles spectral as they rose above tumbled mudbricks and cut stone.

He followed the guard into the larger mudbricked house at the head of the lane.

The items are then sold to “garbage barons,” middlemen who in some cases have made small fortunes off garbage, enough at least to replace their zinc shanties with mudbrick or cement.