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clinker

[ UK /klˈɪŋkɐ/ ]
VERB
  1. clear out the cinders and clinker from
    we clinkered the fire frequently
  2. turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning
NOUN
  1. a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
  2. a hard brick used as a paving stone

How To Use clinker In A Sentence

  • Clinker perceiving these signs of life, immediately tied up his arm with a garter, and, pulling out a horse-fleam, let him blood in the farrier stile. — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
  • He put his hand into the pocket of his coat and pulled out a bubbly, burnt lump of clinker rock. SMOKE AND MIRRORS
  • The clinker-built construction of overlapping planks secured by clench nails conferred great strength with flexibility.
  • Beneath the city's dense urban forest, low walls of Arroyo Seco stone and clinker brick front brown-shingled homes with porches set under graceful overhangs.
  • An electric three-roll crusher reduces 95% of the clinker to less than 35 mm in size.
  • The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old. Morgan’s Run
  • The combustion of a vastly increased bulk of pulverized coal and a greatly enlarged combustion zone, extending about forty feet longitudinally into the kiln -- thus providing an area within which the material might be maintained in a clinkering temperature for a sufficiently long period to insure its being thoroughly clinkered from periphery to centre. Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2
  • Clinker shipbuilding was a genuine craft, in which the shipwright remained close to his materials.
  • Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their "style. The Certain Hour
  • The sulfur emissibility during burning cement clinker with calcium sulfate, calcium sulfite gypsum and desulphurize slag that consist of CaSO3 separately were studied in laboratory electric stove.
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