Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A refractory brick, usually made of fire clay, used for lining furnaces, fireboxes, chimneys, or fireplaces.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A brick made of material which will not fuse readily in a kiln or furnace: used for lining furnaces, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a brick made of fire clay, used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
brick capable of withstanding high temperatures without deforming.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys
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Examples
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Typically, firebrick has a more yellowish colour and is more ceramic in appearance with little or no porosity to the brick.
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Typically, firebrick has a more yellowish colour and is more ceramic in appearance with little or no porosity to the brick.
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NOAH ADAMS: A small white house, a work shed and sales room, stacks of firewood around, a 30-foot-long kiln made from firebrick - here is the potter.
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PS - loved the firebrick one daisybones on March 04, 2008
An Alphabetic List Of Colours And My Resulting Recollections 2008
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The top of my firebrick kiln AF-99 is always warm and just hanging out, wishing that it could be of use too.
Better Scents in the Studio Studio Marcy - Marcy Lamberson 2008
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I gave that up a couple years later when somebody slipped a firebrick in on me ...
Long Ago and Far Away Steve Perry 2007
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The technique uses factory-built fireplaces that are lined with standard firebrick and look like masonry fireplaces.
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Mushtaq made his knives using the lowest of low-tech methods in a traditional manner, hammering and forging the high-carbon tool steel by hand, using gas-fed firebrick ovens and open fires and anvils and suchlike that would have been at home back in the dawn of space flight, even before.
Archive 2006-08-01 Steve Perry 2006
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Mushtaq made his knives using the lowest of low-tech methods in a traditional manner, hammering and forging the high-carbon tool steel by hand, using gas-fed firebrick ovens and open fires and anvils and suchlike that would have been at home back in the dawn of space flight, even before.
Mushtaq's Knife/The Gangster Conspiracy Steve Perry 2006
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Right now, the power train stops at the big flywheel, but the engine is complete, and Yarrl has fired up the boiler at low temperatures several times to help temper the firebrick.
The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994
knitandpurl commented on the word firebrick
"Few visitors came to that room, and when they did, they had a tendency to ask, "Is this the bricks?" meaning Carl Andre's Equivalent VIII, made from, and consisting of, 120 firebricks, which to this day remains an exciting touchstone for art skeptics and philistines everywhere. I was delighted to be able to say, "No, it's not the bricks. It's the stones.""
The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson, pp 65-66
January 2, 2011