Obs. [corruption of F. bricoler: see prec.] trans. To cause to rebound.
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, Wks. (Grosart), III. 20. Whiles thou mak’st a Tennis court of their faces, by brick-walling thy clay-ball crosse vp and downe their cheekes.
c. 1600. J. Chamberlain, Lett. (1861), 13. Tossed too and fro and brickwald like a tennis ball from the one side to the other.
a. 1628. F. Greville, Mustapha, V. (1633), 127. Brickwall your errors from one to another.
