clinker
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Etymology 1 [edit]
From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).
Noun [edit]
clinker (plural clinkers)
- A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands. [from 17th c.]
- A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat. [from 17th c.]
- Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling. [from 18th c.]
- Hardened volcanic lava. [from 19th c.]
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 10:
- Nobody could pretend that a huge slope of clinker is aesthetically pleasing.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 10:
- A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging. [from 19th c.]
Etymology 2 [edit]
Noun [edit]
clinker (plural clinkers)
- Someone or something that clinks.
- (in the plural) Fetters.
- Someone or something that clinches.
