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  2. Course (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The result is a row of bricks that looks similar to soldiers marching in formation, from a profile view. Sailor: Units are laid vertically on their shortest ends with their widest edge facing the wall surface. [1] The result is a row of bricks that looks similar to sailors manning the rail.

  3. Brickwork - Wikipedia

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    Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar. Typically, rows of bricks called courses [1] [2] are laid on top of one another to build up a structure such as a brick wall. Bricks may be differentiated from blocks by size.

  4. Masonry - Wikipedia

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    Each row of bricks is known as a course. The pattern of headers and stretchers employed gives rise to different 'bonds' such as the common bond (with every sixth course composed of headers), the English bond, and the Flemish bond (with alternating stretcher and header bricks present on every course).

  5. AstroPop - Wikipedia

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    As bricks explode, the bricks below move up to fill in the gaps. If this causes 4 or more bricks of the same color to meet, they too will automatically explode (referred to as a combo). New rows of bricks continuously arrive from the top of the screen, at a rate directly proportional to the level of play.

  6. Glossary of structural engineering - Wikipedia

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    Two basic categories of bricks are fired and non-fired bricks. Brickwork – is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar. Typically, rows of bricks—called courses— [21] [22] are laid on top of one another to build up a structure such as a brick wall.

  7. Brick - Wikipedia

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    A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction. Properly, the term brick denotes a unit ...

  8. Ablaq - Wikipedia

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    During this period, black and white stone were often used as well as red brick in recurring rows, giving a three colored striped building. [3] Ablaq masonry supplemented other decorative techniques such as the use of "joggled" voussoirs in arches, where stones of alternating colours were cut into interlocking shapes. [11]

  9. Cinq-Mars pile - Wikipedia

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    [Bec 1] These bricks are laid flat in five rows, alternating in width and length to avoid vertical joint alignment. An estimated 104,000 bricks are used in 580 rows from the base to the top of the pile. [Aud 1] The bricks may have been locally made, as suggested by the continued presence of brick-making in Cinq-Mars-la-Pile until the 1930s.