OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 22959

brickbat

/ˈbɹɪkbæt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pedrada
A piece of brick, rock, etc., especially when used as a weapon (for example, thrown or placed in a sock or other receptacle and used as a club).
[S]he sēt [sent] a brick back after him & hit him on þᵉ back, […]
[Y]ᵉ body of King Charles the First was privately putt into the Sand about White-hall; and the coffin that was carried to Windsor and layd in K. Hen[ry] 8^(th's) vault was filled w…
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 22960

brickbat

/ˈbɹɪkbæt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
lanzar unas pedradas
To attack (someone or something) by swinging or throwing brickbats (noun noun, sense 1).
We had two boys arrested, both colored, for brick-batting a colored woman in her house. They were sent to the chaingang for 12 months each.
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