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brick-tea

brick-tea noun: tea leaves formed into the shape of a brick, used to make beverages like tea, eaten as food or, as in the past, used as a form of currency.

Noun

brick-tea (uncountable)

  1. Tea leaves formed into the shape of a brick, used to make beverages like tea, eaten as food or, as in the past, used as a form of currency.
    • "Some of them were men from Ladakh," said Lalun, when the last had gone. "They brought me brick-tea such as the Russians sell, and a tea-urn from Peshawar."1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 438

brick-tea meaning in Tamil

brick-tea in Tamil

அப்பம் போன்று அழுத்தப்பட்டுள்ள தேயிலை

Questions about brick-tea

What does brick-tea mean?
Brick-tea means tea leaves formed into the shape of a brick, used to make beverages like tea, eaten as food or, as in the past, used as a form of currency.
What is brick-tea in Tamil?
Brick-tea in Tamil is அப்பம் போன்று அழுத்தப்பட்டுள்ள தேயிலை. See Brick-tea meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is brick-tea?
Brick-tea is a noun.

Words near brick-tea in the dictionary

  1. brick-breakers
  2. brick-buster
  3. brick-busters
  4. brick-red
  5. brick-shaped
  6. brick-tea
  7. brick-wall limiter
  8. brick-wall limiters
  9. brickable
  10. Brickaville
  11. brickbat

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