(Formerly often written as one word brickwall, or with hyphen, as still attrib.) A wall built of brick.
1535. Coverdale, 2 Kings iii. 25. There remayned but the stones in the brickwall.
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., IV. iv. 818. Set against a Brick-wall.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., Brick, Brick-walls are also found warmer and wholesomer than those of free-stone and marble.
attrib. 1785. Cowper, Task, IV. 771. That never pass their brick-wall bounds.
