[S]he sēt [sent] a brick back after him & hit him on þᵉ back, […]
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Brickbat
//ˈbɹɪkbæt//
Synonyms for "brickbat" (45 found)
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9 translations across 4 languages.
Finnish
4 entries- murikka noun (piece of brick, rock, etc., especially when used as a weapon)
- risu noun (piece of (sharp) criticism or a (highly) uncomplimentary remark)
- arvostella kärkevästi verb (to assail (someone or something) with (sharp) criticism)
- heittää kiviä verb (to attack (someone or something) by swinging or throwing brickbats)
Russian
2 entries- булы́жник noun (piece of brick, rock, etc., especially when used as a weapon)
- половня́к noun (piece of brick, rock, etc., especially when used as a weapon)
Spanish
2 entries- pedrada noun (piece of brick, rock, etc., especially when used as a weapon)
- lanzar unas pedradas verb (to attack (someone or something) by swinging or throwing brickbats)
Vietnamese
1 entries- búa rìu dư luận verb (to assail (someone or something) with (sharp) criticism)
Sample sentences
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[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 with rubbish, or brick-batts.
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Fragments of glass kept company with the dust on the floor, together with a choice collection of stones, brickbats, and other missiles,—which not improbably were the cause of their being there.
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No doubt he, like me, had been buoying himself up for years with the thought that we should never meet again and that, whatever brickbats life might have in store for him, he had at least got Bertram out of his system. A nasty jar it must have been for the poor bloke having me suddenly pop up from a trap like this.
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