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brick slip

brick slip noun: a thin slice, usually 20mm in thickness, of a facing brick; used for creating feature walls and external cladding when a lightweight material must be used.

Noun

brick slip (plural brick slips)

  1. A thin slice, usually 20mm in thickness, of a facing brick; used for creating feature walls and external cladding when a lightweight material must be used.
    • Cut a brick slip in half and add the half bricks to the empty spaces at the edge. Continue adding the brick slips to the glued wall in this manner, always leaving a 1mm space around the bricks. Brick the rest of the walls in the same manner[…]2024 August 27, Rebecca Micallef, Designing and Decorating a Period Dolls' House, The Crowood Press, →ISBN

Forms of brick slip

pluralbrick slips

Questions about brick slip

What does brick slip mean?
Brick slip means a thin slice, usually 20mm in thickness, of a facing brick; used for creating feature walls and external cladding when a lightweight material must be used.
What part of speech is brick slip?
Brick slip is a noun.
What is the plural of brick slip?
The plural of brick slip is brick slips.

Words near brick slip in the dictionary

  1. brick phones
  2. brick red
  3. brick reds
  4. brick shithouse
  5. brick shithouses
  6. brick slip
  7. brick slips
  8. brick stamp
  9. brick stamps
  10. brick stitch
  11. brick stitches

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