Brickspace Dictionary: Earling

Earling (n.) (Ear·ling)
The Earling brick is a popular SNOT brick, which has two stud-sides and two under-sides. The name 'Earling' comes from its creator, but it is also known as a headlight brick because of its wide use as vehicle headlights in early Lego cars. Another name for it is a 'washing machine'.

The Earling brick is known for being used for SNOT. On its own, it has an annoying bottom rim (or 'bottom lip').  This means the stud is higher up the brick than it is in other SNOT bricks such as Travis (Dalek) and Davros parts. However, when two Earlings are put together along with a 1x1 plate, they make a neat SNOT solution (see below).

The 1x4 SNOT brick (see below) is named the 'laundrette' because it looks like a set of Earling 'washing machine' bricks all in a row. It is, however, more similar to the Travis brick because it has no rim.