clinker
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[edit] English
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- Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(r)
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clinker (plural clinkers)
- Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
- Hardened volcanic lava.
- A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
- A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
- A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
- One who clinks or an item that clinks, hence fetters are also called clinkers.
- Clink, derived from clinch, hence one who clinches or that clinches.
[edit] Derived terms
- clinker block
- Clinker-built, especially boats. Built by overlapping timber boards that are fixed by clinched nails.

