Meaning of Clinker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone or something that clinks.
2. A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
   attributive, uncountable
3. A surname.
4. A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
   countable, uncountable
5. A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
   countable, uncountable
6. Fetters.
   in-plural
7. Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
   countable, uncountable
8. 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
9. Hardened volcanic lava.
   countable, uncountable
10. A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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

“Cold and grim sat that malevolent brute the furnace, greedy, bottomless—its grate bars clenched over clinkers which no shaker could dislodge.”

“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.”

“Nobody could pretend that a huge slope of clinker is aesthetically pleasing.”

“clinker planking; a clinker dinghy”

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