clinker

/klɪŋkə/

noun

  1. 1

    A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.

  2. 2

    A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.

  3. 3

    Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.

  4. 4

    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.

  5. 5

    Hardened volcanic lava.

  6. 6

    A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.

verb

  1. 1

    To convert or be converted into clinker.

noun

  1. 1

    Someone or something that clinks.

  2. 2

    (in the plural) Fetters.

noun

  1. 1

    A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.

    clinker planking; a clinker dinghy

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