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/ˈklɪŋkə(ɹ)/ · noun
A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands..
She left the road at the little shed where he whom she still regarded as her father used to keep his tricycle, and walked up the clinker path towards the house.
The coal was terrible stuff—Indian, Abdul told me. The "dart" was used often and I saw some monster clinkers.
Cold and grim sat that malevolent brute the furnace, greedy, bottomless—its grate bars clenched over clinkers which no shaker could dislodge.
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.
Nobody could pretend that a huge slope of clinker is aesthetically pleasing.
This burning has baked and clinkered the adjacent strata, producing a very resistant formation, which rises with conspicuous abruptness from the flat terrace underlain by the soft Lebo shale member.
The use of coal with a low ash fusion temperature (1204°C, or 2200°F) caused frequent clinkering on the grate during initial tests. The clinkering stopped when the coal was replaced with one having a higher fusion temperature […]
clinker planking; a clinker dinghy
Use clinker when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Clinker means A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands..
Common synonyms include lapstrake, Dutch clinker, cinder, clinker brick.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She left the road at the little shed where he whom she still regarded as her father used to keep his tricycle, and walked up the clinker path towards the house.
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