bricklet

English

Etymology

From brick +‎ -let.

Noun

bricklet (plural bricklets)

A small brick. [from 19th c.]
- 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 the Inner Temple; with a Biographical Memoir, volume II, R.C. Lepage and Co., page 363:
  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.
- 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, Everts & Peck, page 243:
  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 of the daily tests largely exceed this, resisting a pull varying from 60 to 130 pounds. A bricklet made last September was recently tested (April, 1880), and was not broken until the pull equaled 900 pounds
- 1897, “The testing of clays”, in Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1897: Eighteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, United States Government Printing Office, page 1122:
  For some time it has been customary in this country to confine the laboratory investigation of clay to a chemical analysis of it, with perhaps the burning of a hand-molded bricklet in an assayer's muffle.