variants
or briquet
: a compacted often brick-shaped mass of usually fine material
a charcoal briquette
briquette
transitive verb
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Eight, allergic to dust, asthmatic, stigmatic with mystery rashes,
balanced tiptoe on a stack
of peat briquettes
wound in butcher’s twine,
fingers smutty from
Suttons Premium Polish Coal.
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Dean Browne, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2021
With the Rockefeller grant, Cup of Uji has installed clean energy solutions, such as briquettes at Athi River Primary School.
—Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Since the peak immigration years of the 1970s, when the majority of Koreans were still heating their homes with coal briquettes, the country has become the 14th-largest economy in the world and a global cultural force.
—Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Stage 1 fire restrictions are active in the Coconino National Forest, which prohibits fires fueled by combustible materials like wood, charcoal, briquettes, and coal outside of a developed site.
—Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2024
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Dean Browne, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2021
With the Rockefeller grant, Cup of Uji has installed clean energy solutions, such as briquettes at Athi River Primary School.
—Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
Since the peak immigration years of the 1970s, when the majority of Koreans were still heating their homes with coal briquettes, the country has become the 14th-largest economy in the world and a global cultural force.
—Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Stage 1 fire restrictions are active in the Coconino National Forest, which prohibits fires fueled by combustible materials like wood, charcoal, briquettes, and coal outside of a developed site.
—Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2024
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briquette
noun
bri·quette
variants
or briquet
: a compact mass of powdery or ground-up material pressed together and molded
charcoal briquettes
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