[f. prec. sb.: cf. to stone.] trans. To pelt with brickbats.
1830. Morning Post, 11 Sept., 3/1. In antiquity, King Abimelech among the Jews, and King Pyrrhus among the Greeks, were the only two people I ever heard of brick-batted to death by the fair hands of ladies.
1884. Boston (Mass.) Jrnl., 27 Oct., 7. The Republican procession was brickbatted.
