briquette








noun

  1. a small block of compressed coal dust or charcoal used for fuel, especially in barbecuing.
  2. a molded block of any material.

verb (used with object), bri·quett·ed, bri·quett·ing.

  1. to mold into briquettes.

noun

  1. a small brick made of compressed coal dust, sawdust, charcoal, etc, used for fuel
  2. a small brick of any substancean ice-cream briquette

verb

  1. (tr) to make into the form of a brick or bricksto briquette clay
n.

1884, originally blocks of compressed coal dust held together by pitch, from French briquette (18c.), diminutive of brique (see brick (n.)).

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