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Weep hole
Also called weep holes, weep-hole
A small opening through a wall or terrace that lets water drain out of the core; the ziggurat of Ur has rows of them in its baked-brick casing.
Rules that use the word
A skin of baked brick bedded in bitumen. Build the core of sun-dried mud brick; case it with baked brick laid in bitumen, with layers of reed matting through the mass and weep holes to let water out.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters The Ancient World.
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