[f. BRICK sb. + EARTH.] Earth or clay suitable for making bricks; in Geol. a clayey brownish earth lying below the surface soil in the London basin.
1667. Evelyn, Mem. (1857), II. 24. We went to search for brick-earth.
1768. Tucker, Lt. Nat., II. 75. Timber, stone, lime, and brick-earth for our habitation.
1878. Huxley, Physiogr., xvii. 280. In many places round London the sheet of gravel is overlaid by a thin deposit of brownish loam represented on the map as brick-earth since it is largely worked by brickmakers.
