An archaic or dialectal term for brick, the rectangular building block made from clay.
A variant spelling of 'brick,' from Middle Dutch 'bricke.' Regional dialects sometimes preserved older or alternative spellings of common words like this.
Brike shows how spelling wasn't standardized in English for centuries—workers might say 'brike' while scholars wrote 'brick,' and both were considered correct in their own regions.
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