EGAVE

clinker

About 0.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. noun A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
  3. noun Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
  4. noun 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.
  5. noun Hardened volcanic lava.
  6. noun A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
  7. verb To convert or be converted into clinker.
  8. noun Someone or something that clinks.

Similar words

cinder clinker brick slag construction scar built klinker dutch clinker clinker block clinker-work

Often followed by

is and in to from or was built formation

Word family

clinker brick clinker bricks clinkers

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