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Clanker vs. Clinker

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Clankernoun

Something that makes a clanking noise.

Clinkernoun

A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.

Clankernoun

(slang) A fib.

‘Stop telling clankers!’;

Clinkernoun

A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.

Clinkernoun

Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.

Clinkernoun

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.

Clinkernoun

Hardened volcanic lava.

Clinkernoun

A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.

Clinkernoun

Someone or something that clinks.

Clinkernoun

(in the plural) Fetters.

Clinkernoun

A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.

‘clinker planking; a clinker dinghy’;

Clinkerverb

(ambitransitive) To convert or be converted into clinker.

Clinkernoun

A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.

Clinkernoun

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.

Clinkernoun

A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.

Clinkernoun

A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.

Clinkernoun

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

Clinkernoun

a hard brick used as a paving stone

Clinkerverb

clear out the cinders and clinker from;

‘we clinkered the fire frequently’;

Clinkerverb

turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning

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