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Clinker

Clinker Definition And Meaning
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}.

Clinker Definition And Meaning

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

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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