Clinker

Definition of Clinker

Clink´er Pronunciation: klĭņk´ẽr

n.	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.

Related Words

adobe, alluvion, alluvium, ash, ashes, ashlar, atonalism, atonality, brand, brick, bricks and mortar, cacophony, calx, carbon, cement, charcoal, cinder, coal, coke, concrete, coom, covering materials, deposition, deposits, diluvium, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, draff, dregs, dross, ember, feces, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagstone, flatness, flooring, froth, fume, grounds, inharmoniousness, inharmony, lath and plaster, lava, lees, loess, masonry, moraine, mortar, off note, offscum, pavement, paving, paving material, plasters, precipitate, precipitation, prestressed concrete, reek, roofage, roofing, scoria, scum, sediment, settlings, sharpness, siding, silt, sinter, slag, smoke, smudge, smut, soot, sour note, sourness, stone, stridor, sublimate, sullage, tile, tiling, tunelessness, unharmoniousness, unmusicality, untunefulness, walling, wolf

Browse

Clinch
Clincher
Clincher-built
Cling
clingfish
Clingstone
Clingy
Clinic
Clinical
Clinical baptism
Clinical instruction
Clinical lecture
Clinical medicine
Clinically
clinid
Clinidae
Clinique
Clinium
Clink
Clinkant
-Clinker-
Clinker-built
Clinkstone
Clinodiagonal
Clinodome
Clinographic
Clinoid
Clinometer
Clinometric
Clinometry
Clinopinacoid
Clinorhombic
Clinostat
Clinquant
Clinton
clintonia
clintonomics
Clio
Clione
Clip
clip hook

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

© 2009 Interapple, Inc. Cover