Word info

mud brick

Speech parts

1. mud brick - Noun

2. mud brick - Adjective

Meaning

a brick made from baked mud

of or incorporating mud bricks

Source: WordNet

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mud-brick

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Examples

Neolithic peoples in the Levant, Anatolia, Syria, northern Mesopotamia and Central Asia were also accomplished builders, utilizing mud-brick to construct houses and villages. Source: Internet

Prehistory By the seventh millennium BC, people of a Neolithic culture had settled into a sedentary way of life there in fortified mud-brick villages, where they supplemented hunting and fishing on the Nile with grain gathering and cattle herding. Source: Internet

Since they were constructed of sun-dried mud-brick, little remains of them. Source: Internet

Their dwellings were restricted to immediate family members, and were constructed of mud-brick designed to remain cool in the heat of the day. Source: Internet

There are also a number of traditional mud-brick houses within these old limits, but they are for the most part dilapidated. Source: Internet

The Romans made fired clay bricks from about the beginning of the Empire, replacing earlier sun-dried mud-brick. Source: Internet

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