brick-bat

But the things are coated in wax, are hard as a brick-bat, and usually have dicey spots on them.

Roasted Rutabaga 2006

On the other hand, some people are so eager to get their deathless prose published that they need the information delivered on a brick-bat or Miss Snark's infamous clue-gun.

Hey NaNoWRIMo, do the right thing here, ok? Miss Snark 2006

It was to Foret that the colonel had given up his sword, after he had been dragged headforemost through a window, had had his head cut open with a brick-bat, and his sheath and sword-belt literally torn from his side.

La Vend�e 2004

“Hobgoblin,” answered the boy readily; “but for all that, I would rather have my own ugly viznomy than any of their jolter-heads, that have no more brains in them than a brick-bat.”

Kenilworth 2004

He who is not employed in merit or in sin, he who does not attend to Profit, or Virtue, or Desire, who is above all faults, who regards gold and a brick-bat with equal eyes, becomes liberated from pleasure and pain and the necessity of accomplishing his purposes.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

After the pan has been used in this manner three or four times, a bucket of cold water is thrown in, and a soft brick-bat and bamboo broom used, to give it a good scouring out; the water is thrown out of the pan by the brush on one side, the pan itself being never taken off.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

I recollected twice, in walking home with him, late at night, from the theatre, his quietly taking a brick-bat from out of his coat-pocket and deliberately smashing it through the casement of the Town Hall, and walking on and continuing his conversation as if nothing had happened.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

Building were alarmed by an outcry in the street, which proved to be that of a slave who had just been knocked down with a brick-bat by his pursuing master.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

I doubt whether genuine porridge should be of the consistency of a brick-bat, or taste of hair-oil.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891 Various

I have my suspicions that those boys "heave a stone" or "fire a brick-bat," composed of the conglomerate just mentioned, without any more tearful or philosophical contemplations than boys of less favored regions expend on the same performance.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various