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Definition of Clinkers

Clinker
Clinker Clink"er (kl[i^][ng]k"[~e]r), n. [From clink; cf. D. clinker a brick which is so hard that it makes a sonorous sound, from clinken to clink. Cf. Clinkstone.] 1. A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln. 2. Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag. 3. A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging. 4. A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.

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- These reclaimed brick tiles are not sliced from full clinker bricks but from half clinkers. Full clinkers are very hard and if used as flooring would not only...
- boats Clinker (waste), waste from industrial processes, particularly coal burning Clinkers (album), a 1978 album by saxophonist Steve Lacy Clinker brick...
- Cement clinker is a solid material produced in the manufacture of portland cement as an intermediary product. Clinker occurs as lumps or nodules, usually...
- Clinkers can occur naturally, for example in underground deposits of coal that have been altered by heat from nearby molten magma; volcanic clinkers are...
- Clinkers is a live solo album by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy which was released on the HatHut label in 1978. The Allmusic review by Steve Loewy stated...
- Clinker-built, also known as lapstrake-built, is a method of boat building in which the edges of longitudinal (lengthwise-running) hull planks overlap...
- and the loose piles of lava debris, resembling furnace clinkers, which wall the gulch. "Clinker Gulch: Antarctica" National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency...
- a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as volcanic clinkers, volcanic ash, or scoria that has been built around a volcanic vent. The...
- Rowland Sidnam Walter "Clinker" Birt (9 August 1890 – 5 June 1948) was a rugby union player who represented Australia. Birt, a number eight, was born...
- The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, published in London on 17 June 1771 (three months before Smollett's...