Talk:Brick (disambiguation)

Brick (sort of boat or ship)

The book Captains Courageous http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/cptcr11a.txt includes this text:

"Once I was in the Lucy Holmes," said Manuel, in his gentle voice. "They not want any of her feesh in Gloucester. Eh, wha-at? Give us no price. So we go across the water, and think to sell to some Fayal man. Then it blow fresh, and we cannot see well. Eh, wha-at? Then it blow some more fresh, and we go down below and drive very fast--no one know where. By and by we see a land, and it get some hot. Then come two, three nigger in a brick. Eh, wha-at? We ask where we are, and they say--now, what you all think?"

"Grand Canary," said Disko, after a moment. Manuel shook his head, smiling.

"Blanco," said Tom Platt.

"No. Worse than that. We was below Bezagos, and the brick she was from Liberia! So we sell our feesh there! Not bad, so? Eh, wha-at?"

What sort of ship or boat is/was a "brick"? Anthony Appleyard 05:50, 9 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
With only 2 or 3 crew, it can't be a brig. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:18, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]