briquette means A small brick, typically made of charcoal and used for fuel. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.
noun
- A small brick, typically made of charcoal and used for fuel.“[…] an eggette or briquette manufacturing contract, where, by the compression of tar with these fine particles of culm, there are made pieces of coal about the size of an egg […]”
- A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving.
- A molded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material.
verb
- To form (coal, etc.) into small bricks.