brick

brick
 v.— «Because of miscalculation, their load was too heavy, so they “bricked” the seaplane.» —“Veteran fliers bid adieu to an old sweetheart Canada’s last 9 DC-3 Dakotas being retired” by Ron Lowman in Hamilton, Ontario Toronto Star (Canada) Mar. 20, 1989. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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