brick vs lump

brick

verb
  • To hit someone or something with a brick. 

  • To blunder; to screw up. 

  • To make into bricks. 

  • To build, line, or form with bricks. 

  • To make an electronic device nonfunctional and usually beyond repair, essentially making it no more useful than a brick. 

adj
  • Extremely cold. 

noun
  • A shot which misses, particularly one which bounces directly out of the basket because of a too-flat trajectory, as if the ball were a heavier object. 

  • A power brick; an external power supply consisting of a small box with an integral male power plug and an attached electric cord terminating in another power plug. 

  • A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building. 

  • The colour brick red. 

  • An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete. 

  • A projectile. 

  • Such hardened mud, clay, etc. considered collectively, as a building material. 

  • A carton of 500 rimfire cartridges, which forms the approximate size and shape of a brick. 

  • A kilogram of cocaine. 

  • Something shaped like a brick. 

  • A community card (usually the turn or the river) which does not improve a player's hand. 

lump

verb
  • To hit or strike (a person). 

  • To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items). 

  • To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another. 

  • To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility. 

  • To form a lump or lumps. 

noun
  • A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body. 

  • A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful. 

  • A dull or lazy person. 

  • A beating or verbal abuse. 

  • A group, set, or unit. 

  • A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel. 

  • A kind of fish, the lumpsucker. 

  • Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape. 

How often have the words brick and lump occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )