Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The incombustible residue, fused into an irregular lump, that remains after the combustion of coal.
- noun A partially vitrified brick or a mass of bricks fused together.
- noun An extremely hard burned brick.
- noun Vitrified matter expelled by a volcano.
- noun A sour note in a musical performance.
- noun A mistake; a blunder.
- noun Something of inferior quality; a conspicuous failure.
- noun Chiefly British Something admirable or first-rate.
- intransitive verb To form clinkers in burning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which clinks. Specifically
- noun A metal-heeled shoe used in dancing jigs.
- noun The partly melted and agglutinated residuum of the combustion of coal which has a fusible ash.
- noun A partially vitrified brick or mass of bricks.
- noun A kind of hard Dutch or Flemish brick, used for paving yards and stables.
- noun Vitrified or burnt matter thrown up by a volcano.
- noun A scale of black oxid of iron, formed when iron is heated to redness in the open air.
- noun A deep impression of a horse's or cow's foot; a small puddle so formed.
- To form clinker; become incrusted with clinker.
- noun In cricket, a ball bowled exceedingly well.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
- noun 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.
- noun A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
- noun A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under
Dutch .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone or something that clinks.
- noun in the plural
Fetters . - noun Someone or something that clinches.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb clear out the cinders and clinker from
- verb turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning
- noun a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
- noun a hard brick used as a paving stone
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If clinker is found on the ground, a coal seam is bound to be underneath.
The Volokh Conspiracy » An Insufficiently Deferential D.C. Circuit? 2010
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The clinker is that the chain decides which Canadian authors they will display and advertise from a list of authors that the six publishers submit.
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The wreck is described as clinker built, a shipbuilding style which dates back to the Viking era, but used for centuries afterwards.
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The wreck is described as clinker built, a shipbuilding style which dates back to the Viking era, but used for centuries afterwards.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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The mix which emerges as lumps at the end of the firing period is known as clinker; this clinker is then cooled and finely ground, and a small quantity of gypsum - which delays setting time - is added, to give Portland cement itself.
Chapter 8 1994
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· A rotary grate discharges the clinker, which is then interground with gypsum in a ball-mill.
Chapter 4 1988
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Moreover, the clinker, which is of excessively hard character, has to be reduced by means of a crusher to particles sufficiently small to be admitted by the millstones, where it is ground into a fine powder, and becomes the Portland cement of commerce.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 Various
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Here some type of a so-called clinker breaker removes the refuse.
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An enormous dome, made of concrete, holds the pelletize cement, called clinker, that GCC sells around the middle and western United States.
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When a musician performs a Bach Fugue or Beethoven Sonata, a wrong note is called a "clinker," and can be as jarring as a mixed-up before-and-after ad.
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Lime has a chemical structure that makes it clingy or cementitious, and more so when mixed with other minerals in the shale and clays — and together they form what is called “clinker,” or “gray gold,” built of tiny interlocking crystals
chained_bear commented on the word clinker
Usage note on lapstrake.
May 1, 2008
john commented on the word clinker
“The United States spends more energy to produce a ton of cement clinker than Canada, Mexico and even China.�?
The New York Times, Energy Inefficient , January 18, 2009
January 19, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word clinker
"Then she opened the door of the cold and silent furnace and stuck her hand inside. 'Eureka!' she shouted, with a loud, metallic echo, for there at the bottom of the furnace, with a sparse scattering of ashes and one forgotten clinker, lay the clue!"
Spiderweb for Two by Elizabeth Enright, p 195 of the 2008 paperback
July 15, 2011