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a. Bricklaying and Masonry. The connection or union of the bricks or stones in a wall or structure by making them overlap and hold together; a method of disposing the bricks in a wall by which the whole is bound into one compact mass: as in English bond, that in which the bricks are placed in alternate courses of ‘headers’ (bricks laid with their ends towards the face of the wall or structure) and ‘stretchers’ (bricks laid longitudinally); also English cross bond (see quots.); Flemish bond, that in which each course consists of alternate ‘headers’ and ‘stretchers’; garden bond, etc.; also a brick or stone placed lengthways through a wall to bind and strengthen it, a binder, bond stone; garden-wall-bond, a bond in which each course consists of three stretchers and one header.