clinker
/ˈklɪŋkɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.41 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
Countable; Uncountable
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.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Someone or something that clinks.
Example Sentences
- "She left the road at the little shed where he whom she still regarded as her father used to keep his tricycle, and walked up the clinker path towards the house."
- "The coal was terrible stuff—Indian, Abdul told me. The "dart" was used often and I saw some monster clinkers."
- "Cold and grim sat that malevolent brute the furnace, greedy, bottomless—its grate bars clenched over clinkers which no shaker could dislodge."
- "This wall of rock, which had no doubt once formed the lip of the crater, was about a mile and a half thick, and still covered with clinker."
- "Nobody could pretend that a huge slope of clinker is aesthetically pleasing."
- "This burning has baked and clinkered the adjacent strata, producing a very resistant formation, which rises with conspicuous abruptness from the flat terrace underlain by the soft Lebo shale member."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: klinkaerd
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈklɪŋkɚ/
- British English: /ˈklɪŋkə(ɹ)/