Sekirov Dictionary

clinker

UK /ˈklɪŋkə(ɹ)/US /ˈklɪŋkɚ/

noun 10
verb 1
forms 3

noun10

A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
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Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
- The coal was terrible stuff—Indian, Abdul told me. The "dart" was used often and I saw some monster clinkers. — 1942
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.
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Hardened volcanic lava.
- 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. — 1886
A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
[before a noun] A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
(slang) A mistake or blunder.
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A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
- 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. — 1938
Someone or something that clinks.
[in the plural] Fetters.

verb1

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To convert or be converted into clinker.
- 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. — 1923

forms

clinkered · clinkering · clinkers

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