brickbats

Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪkbæts/

The English word “brickbats” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

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

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.

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