briquette
Americannoun
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a small block of compressed coal dust or charcoal used for fuel, especially in barbecuing.
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a molded block of any material.
verb (used with object)
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briquettes,
present (3rd person singular)
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briquetted,
past participle, past
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briquetting
present participle
noun
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a small brick made of compressed coal dust, sawdust, charcoal, etc, used for fuel
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a small brick of any substance
an ice-cream briquette
verb
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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briquettesimple
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briquettessimple
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have briquettedperfect
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has briquettedperfect
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am briquettingprogressive
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are briquettingprogressive
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is briquettingprogressive
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have been briquettingperfect progressive
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has been briquettingperfect progressive
Past
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briquettedsimple
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had briquettedperfect
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was briquettingprogressive
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were briquettingprogressive
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had been briquettingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of briquette
From French, dating back to 1880–85; see origin at brick, -ette
Example Sentences
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Created in 1934, the Ludo bracelet features updates like delicate mesh in hexagon and briquette motifs, woven by the maison’s craftsmen to heighten the effect of a supple ribbon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
It said a charcoal briquette was discovered in the passenger seat of the car.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 26, 2023
Nickel briquette, cathode and pellet are deliverable against the LME's contract.
From Reuters ● Sep. 13, 2023
For your next football watch party, we've got the full recipe for smoked hickory meatball skewers with mozzarella from Chris Lilly, world championship pitmaster and spokesperson for the famed charcoal briquette company, Kingsford.
From Fox News ● Sep. 21, 2021
I found her stewing up old newspapers in a greasy liquid, preparing thus a kind of briquette, the only means of heating which she could afford.
From With Those Who Wait by Frances Wilson Huard
Adser produces about 10 tonnes of briquettes, used for cooking, every day -- but they aren't available everywhere.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
At the stadium entrance, the smell of charcoal briquettes fill the air, while portable speakers blast music from innumerable tailgate parties.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 31, 2023
The ban prohibits igniting wood, briquettes or any fuel in fire pits, fire pans and barbecue grills, according to a news release.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
Always preheat your gas grill with all burners on high, or wait until charcoal briquettes are covered with a gray ash.
From Washington Times ● May 28, 2023
“Eomma taught me how to use the yeontan,” she said as she pointed to the cylindrical coal briquettes piled up against the outside of the house.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
The $1 billion plant in Corpus Christi opened in October 2016, with an annual capacity of 2 million tonnes of high-quality hot briquetted iron, or sponge iron, a pre-material used in steel production.
From Reuters ● Apr. 10, 2022
That’s why Cliffs is investing $830 million in a Toledo, Ohio-based plant that will produce hot briquetted iron for electric-arc furnaces run by firms such as Nucor, Goncalves said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2019
Meanwhile other briquettes from the same lots are subjected to combustion tests for comparison with the same coal not briquetted.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 by Herbert M. Wilson
Comparative tests of run-of-mine and briquetted coal on locomotives, including torpedo-boat tests, and some foreign specifications for briquetted fuel, by W. F. M. Goss.
From Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing by Rufus T. (Rufus Tracy) Strohm
Officers are searching the Phurnacite plant - a smokeless fuel briquetting facility that covers 150 acres - in Abercwmboi village, which they expect to take "some time".
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
On the other hand, it may result in wider introduction of briquetting, coking, and other processes, which will tend to improve the local industry and be conservational in their effect.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
At another time, I had a briquetting machine for briquetting iron ore.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer
In this building two briquetting machines are installed, one an English machine of the Johnson type, and the other a German lignite machine of very powerful construction.
From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 by Herbert M. Wilson
Wider use of the lower-grade fuels of the west, particularly with the aid of briquetting.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
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