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clinker

Pronunciation: /ˈklɪŋkə(ɹ)/

The English word “clinker” has 11 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
  2. A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
  3. Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
  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. Hardened volcanic lava.
  6. A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
  7. Someone or something that clinks.
  8. Fetters.
  9. A mistake or blunder.
  10. A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.

verb

  1. To convert or be converted into clinker.

Etymology

From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).

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