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For understanding similarities between the bricklaying and the Froebel’s
building gift one may look at the basic definitions of brick and basic brick
laying strategies. (Figure 4)
Brick: 1 A substance formed of clay, kneaded, moulded, and
hardened by baking with fire, or in warm countries and ancient
times by drying in the sun; used instead of stone as a building
material.
2. A block of this substance, or of sand and lime, concrete, and
other materials, made of a definite size and shape, as an
individual object; ordinarily rectangular, but also of other shapes
for special purposes. (In 16th c. the pl. was often brick.)
3 A brick-shaped block of any substance, e.g. of tea (see bricktea
in 10); of wood, for a child to play with; of ice-cream; also in
other more consciously figurative uses. box of bricks: a box of
wooden blocks for a child to build with.(Oxford English
Dictionary)
Figure 4. Basic definitions of brick and basic brick laying strategies
Brick bonding of brickwork as described by White “is the arranging of bricks in
a definite repeating pattern with the object of gaining strength or a pleasing
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