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Occasionally, however, a brick must be cut to fit a given space or to be the right shape for some purpose -- for example, creating an offset (a lap) at the beginning of a course. In some cases these special shapes or sizes are manufactured. In the diagrams below, some of the cuts most commonly used for generating a lap are coloured as follows:

; : A brick cut to three-quarters of its length, and laid flat with its long, narrow side exposed.; : A brick cut to three-quarters

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