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What is a brickbat?

What is a brickbat? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A piece of brick used as a weapon, especially if thrown, or placed in something like a sock and used as a club.
  2. A criticism or uncomplimentary remark.
  3. A section of a publication containing criticism.
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I said, just now, he might be at once outshone by a brickbat.
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat.
But he came back with a brickbat and hammered like a blacksmith at the spring.
There isn't a mineral in Louisiana, unless it is a brickbat.
I caught him, put him back, and placed a brickbat over the hole.
Well, Pat, Jimmy didn't quite kill you with a brickbat, did he?

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