bricklet

Noun

bricklet (plural bricklets)

1. A small brick.
   • Alas, time here hath used a pestle, not a scythe, and these remains of mortal buildings are immortal—smash! I got a little marble piece of a flooring, a tiny bricklet in some vast mosaic pavement:—it is the only whole bit I have seen, except the few larger fragments.1854, Henry Whitelock Torrens, “Idle Days in Egypt”, in James Hume, editor, A Selection from the Writings, Prose and Poetical, of the Late Henry W. Torrens, Esq., B. A., Bengal Civil Service, and of...
   • At the expiration of twenty-four hours they are tested by the amount of weight that may be suspended from each bricklet without pulling it apart. Under the test adopted for the Brooklyn bridge they are required to have a “ tensile strength” sufficient to resist a “ pull” of 60 pounds. The majority...1880, Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, “New York and Rosendale Cement Company”, in History of Ulster County, New York, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers...