"brick up" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to close or fill in an opening or door with bricks. Example sentence: They decided to brick up the old well in the backyard to prevent anyone from falling in.
"I really should clear some of this out — " "You could just brick up the windows," Luna mused.
"It is absolutely illegal for him to brick up windows under any circumstances," said Paul Wein, a department spokesman.
"In a recent cloak-and-dagger operation together with some like-minded Aleppines he managed to brick up its 14th-century sundial for safe-keeping," he says.
That bleached-out look has become so ubiquitous on AMC that it's almost as if there were a premium on bright color, like the window tax that drove 18th-century homeowners to brick up their buildings.
Mr. Harvey said, "There was one contractor who said, 'This is a great house -- but you should brick up these big windows, and put smaller, double-hung windows in -- it would be cheaper.' Can you imagine that?" Even the workmen they hired weren't always in tune with the project.
But the squawking shows just how much noise a few fat geese can make, with wild talk about mansion tax dangers: people will brick up their expensively dug-out basements and seal off their loft conversions to keep their valuations under £2m.
Mr. Muhammad said he had bricked up the two windows and door after a robbery several years ago.
(The object is to save Nick's Diner from being bricked up by a remodeler).
Three years ago those windows were bricked up during the construction of a new building next door.
He stressed its spacelessness, bricking up his picture space with form upon form.
Those windows that are not bricked up are covered in heavy security grilles; the shopkeeper hides behind a Plexiglas wall.
