English

Noun

brick-tea ‎(uncountable)

1. A mass of tea leaves formed into the shape of a brick; a common Russian import and formerly used for barter in Mongolia.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White, Folio Society 2005, p. 438:

     "Some of them were men from Ladakh," said Lalun, when the last had gone. "They brought me brick-tea such as the Russians sell, and a tea-urn from Peshawar."

See also

• tea brick