• (America) IPA: /bɹɪˈkɛt/

briquet (plural briquets)

1. A small brick, typically made of charcoal and used for fuel.
   • 1911, F. H. King, Farmers of Forty Centuries

     Another pinch of charcoal was added and the process repeated until the mold was filled, when the briquet was forced out.

2. A block of artificial stone in the form of a brick, used for paving.
3. A moulded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material.
4. (dated) A cigarette lighter.
   • 1919 October, John Galsworthy, chapter I, in Saint’s Progress, London: William Heinemann, published December 1919, OCLC 731506428 ↗, part II, 3 §, page 115 ↗:

     Out of the corner of his eye he caught the flash of a man's "briquet" lighting a cigarette.

• French: briquette
• German: Brikett
• Russian: брике́т

• French: briquet