bricks and mortar

1. 1.

   building material consisting of bricks laid with mortar between them

   Broaderbuilding material

Questions about bricks and mortar

What does bricks and mortar mean?

bricks and mortar means "building material consisting of bricks laid with mortar between them".

Is bricks and mortar a common word?

bricks and mortar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.