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. Mrs. Whitney, Other Girls, xx. 201. Couldn’t the fireplace 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.
