v. [UN-2 4.] trans. To remove bricks from; to open up, set free, by the removal of bricks.
1598. Florio, Smattonare, to vnpaue, to vnbrick, to pull downe bricks.
1873. Whitney, Other Girls, xx. Couldn’t the fire-place be unbricked?
1900. Academy, 4 Aug., 90/2. A climber had stuck there [in a narrow chimney] and died before he could be unbricked.
fig. 1894. B. Pain, Kindn. Celestial, 179. Three days after the engagement he had unbricked ‘a bright and sunny temperament’ in my father.
