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Brick =
Rectangular masonry unit, with or without cores
(holes) made by firing shaped clay in a kiln at an
elevated temperature to harden it, so as to give it
mechanical strength and to provide it with
resistance to moisture.
After coming out of the kiln, the brick is said to
be
burnt, hard-burnt, kiln-burnt, fired, or hard-
fired.
Various types of bricks are available:
acid-
resistant, adobe, angle, arch, building, clinker,
common, dry press, economy, engineered,
facing, fire, floor, gaged, jumbo, modular,
Norman, paving, Roman, salmon, SCR, sewer,
soft-mud, and stiff-mud.