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Clinker

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cindernounPartially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions.
clinker brickClinker bricks are partially-vitrified bricks used in the construction of buildings.

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cindernounPartially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions.
clinker brickClinker bricks are partially-vitrified bricks used in the construction of buildings.
slagnounImpurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
constructionnounThe process of constructing.
scarnounA permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
builtnoun(obsolete) Shape; build; form of structure.
klinkernounDated form of clinker. [A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.]
dutch clinkernoun(dated) A clinker (a hard brick from the Netherlands).
clinker blocknounA lightweight building block made from cinders and concrete.
clinker-worknoun(nautical) Clinker-built work on a vessel.
crozzlenounA brick deformed by excessive heating during its manufacture.
klompienoun(South Africa) A small, hard clay brick.
brickernounA bricklayer.
dutch cornernoun(masonry) Laying bricks with a three-quarter brick closure at the corner.
bricknoun(countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
klompnounA Dutch wooden clog.
cobblestonenoun(uncountable) Cobblestones viewed as a building or paving material.
kerbstonenoun(British spelling) A paving stone that forms part of a kerb.
paviornounA person who lays paving slabs.
dutchmannounA Dutch man; a man from the Netherlands.

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