Clinker

Quick meaning: Clinker is a noun meaning A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.

Meaning

A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.

More Meanings

1. A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
2. Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
3. Hardened volcanic lava.
4. A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
5. (ambitransitive) To convert or be converted into clinker.
6. Someone or something that clinks.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

clinker planking; a clinker dinghy

Nobody could pretend that a huge slope of clinker is aesthetically pleasing.

The coal was terrible stuff—Indian, Abdul told me. The "dart" was used often and I saw some monster clinkers.

This wall of rock, which had no doubt once formed the lip of the crater, was about a mile and a half thick, and still covered with clinker.

Word Forms

• clinkers
• clinkering
• clinkered

Synonyms for clinker

Depending on context, synonyms include lapstrake.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slag, construction, scar, built, klinker, clinker-work.

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