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Cut of a brick
=The practice of laying uncut full-sized bricks wherever possible gives brickwork its maximum possible strength. In the diagrams below, uncut full-sized bricks are coloured as follows:  Stretchers: A brick laid with its long, narrow side exposed. Header: A brick laid with its short side exposed.Occasionally though a brick must be cut to fit a given space, or to be the right shape for fulfilling some particular purpose such as generating an offset, or lap at the beginning of a course.[13] In the diagrams below, the most commonly used cuts for generating offsets are coloured as follows:  Three-quarter bat - stretching: A brick cut to three-quarters of its length, and laid with its long, narrow side exposed. Three-quarter bat - heading: A brick cut to three-quarters of its length, and laid with its short side exposed. Half bat: A brick cut in half across its width. Queen closer: A brick cut in half down its length.[14]Less frequently used cuts are all coloured as follows:  Quarter bat: A brick cut to a quarter of its length. Three-quarter queen closer: A queen closer cut to three-quarters of its length. King closer: A brick with one corner cut away, leaving one header face at half its standard width.[15]=