About The Word Clinker
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Clinker
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What's The Definition Of Clinker?
[n] a hard brick used as a paving stone
[n] a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire [v] turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning [v] clear out the cinders and clinker from; "we clinkered the fire frequently" Synonyms | Synonyms for Clinker: cinder | clinker brick Related Terms | Find terms related to Clinker: adobe | alluvion | alluvium | ash | ashes | ashlar | atonalism | atonality | brand | brick | bricks and mortar | cacophony | calx | carbon | cement | charcoal | cinder | coal | coke | concrete | coom | covering materials | deposition | deposits | diluvium | discord | discordance | discordancy | disharmony | dissonance | dissonancy | dissonant chord | draff | dregs | dross | ember | feces | ferroconcrete | firebrick | flag | flagstone | flatness | flooring | froth | fume | grounds | inharmoniousness | inharmony | lath and plaster | lava | lees | loess | masonry | moraine | mortar | off note | offscum | pavement | paving | paving material | plasters | precipitate | precipitation | prestressed concrete | reek | roofage | roofing | scoria | scum | sediment | settlings | sharpness | siding | silt | sinter | slag | smoke | smudge | smut | soot | sour note | sourness | stone | stridor | sublimate | sullage | tile | tiling | tunelessness | unharmoniousness | unmusicality | untunefulness | walling | wolf See Also | brick | change | clean out | clear out | fragment Clinker In Webster's Dictionary \Clink"er\ (kl[i^][ng]k"[~e]r), n. [From clink; cf. D.
clinker a brick which is so hard that it makes a sonorous
sound, from clinken to clink. Cf. {Clinkstone}.]
1. A mass composed of several bricks run together by the
action of the fire in the kiln.
2. Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a
grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified
or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.
3. A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
4. A kind of brick. See {Dutch clinker}, under {Dutch}.
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