CLINKER

clinker, clinker brick

(noun) a hard brick used as a paving stone

cinder, clinker

(noun) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire

clinker

(verb) turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning

clinker

(verb) clear out the cinders and clinker from; “we clinkered the fire frequently”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

clinker (countable and uncountable, 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.]

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.

Hardened volcanic lava. [from 19th c.]

A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging. [from 19th c.]

Verb

clinker (third-person singular simple present clinkers, present participle clinkering, simple past and past participle clinkered)

(ambitransitive) To convert or be converted into clinker.

Etymology 2

Noun

clinker (plural clinkers)

Someone or something that clinks.

(in the plural) Fetters.

Etymology 3

Noun

clinker (uncountable)

(nautical, mostly, attributive) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.

Synonyms

• lapstrake

Anagrams

• crinkle

Proper noun

Clinker

A surname.

Anagrams

• crinkle

Source: Wiktionary

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Clink"er, n. Etym: [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 klinker, under Dutch.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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