The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a
   wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different
   ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists
   of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers,
   and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face
   of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course
   consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to
   break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change
   of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of
   the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth
   line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall
   is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.