breeze block
Hollow concrete block
A breeze block is a lightweight building block made from concrete and coal cinders or ash—breeze beingiteiteiteiteite industrial term for such residue.
Common in British English; Americans typically say cinder block.
The blocks are hollow, making them easier to handle and providing insulation: The garage walls were built from breeze blocks.
- moldingDecorative architectural edging
- concreteSolid building mixture
- lightweightLacking mass or importance
- aerationInfusing with oxygen
- wallVertical enclosing structure
cinder · porous · cement · building material · partition · privacy screen · curing · ash · soundproofing · textured surface · modular · aggregate · cladding · rectangular · outdoor kitchen · decorative · insulating · hollow
- blocksbrick, cube
- masonrymason, brick, bricks, stone, mortar
- wallspartition walls, load-bearing walls, interior wall, load-bearing wall, bearing wall
- building stoneashlar, bluestone, brownstone, building stone, cobblestone
- Latin American homescasa, hacienda, favela, rancho, estancia
- windproofingwindbreaker, windscreen, windshield, wind deflector, weatherstrip
breeze blockdressed stone
Hewn and smoothed masonry
ashlar · marble · granite · natural stone · carved stone
breeze, block, breezes, breezed, breezing, breezy, breezily, breeziness, blocks