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Clinker

//ˈklɪŋkɚ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands. countable, uncountable

    "She left the road at the little shed where he whom she still regarded as her father used to keep his tricycle, and walked up the clinker path towards the house."

  2. 2
    Someone or something that clinks.
  3. 3
    A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks. attributive, uncountable

    "clinker planking; a clinker dinghy"

  4. 4
    a hard brick used as a paving stone wordnet
  5. 5
    A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    Fetters. in-plural
  2. 7
    a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire wordnet
  3. 8
    Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling. countable, uncountable

    "The coal was terrible stuff—Indian, Abdul told me. The "dart" was used often and I saw some monster clinkers."

  4. 9
    An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    Hardened volcanic lava. countable, uncountable

    "This wall of rock, which had no doubt once formed the lip of the crater, was about a mile and a half thick, and still covered with clinker."

  6. 11
    A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To convert or be converted into clinker. ambitransitive

    "This burning has baked and clinkered the adjacent strata, producing a very resistant formation, which rises with conspicuous abruptness from the flat terrace underlain by the soft Lebo shale member."

  2. 2
    turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning wordnet
  3. 3
    clear out the cinders and clinker from wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).

Etymology 2

From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).

Etymology 3

From clink + -er.

Etymology 4

From clincher.

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