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
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
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