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Rareclinker
The correct spelling is clinker.
How to pronounce clinker
noun
IPA: /klɪŋkə/
Say it like: Cli-nke-r
The correct spelling is clinker. A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands. For example: "clinker planking; a clinker dinghy"
Usage Examples
“clinker planking; a clinker dinghy”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
- 2.A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
- 3.Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
- 4.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.Hardened volcanic lava.
verb
- 1.To convert or be converted into clinker.
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