brickbats

noun
/ˈbɹɪkbæts/UK/ˈbɹɪkˌbæts/US

Etymology

From brickbat + -s. The plural only sense (“small rocky particles moving as a group in space”) was coined by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) and is used chiefly in reference to his writings.

Definitions

  1. Small rocky particles moving as a group in space, especially as forming rings around…

    Small rocky particles moving as a group in space, especially as forming rings around planets.

  2. plural of brickbat

  3. third-person singular simple present indicative of brickbat

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA