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Definition clinker

Etymology 1

From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).

Noun

clinker (countable and uncountable, plural clinkers)

1. A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands. [from 17th c.]
2. A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat. [from 17th c.]
3. Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling. [from 18th c.]
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. [from 19th c.]
6. A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging. [from 19th c.]

Verb

clinker (third-person singular simple present clinkers, present participle clinkering, simple past and past participle clinkered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To convert or be converted into clinker.

Etymology 2

From clink +‎ -er.

Noun

clinker (plural clinkers)

1. Someone or something that clinks.
2. (in the plural) Fetters.

Etymology 3

From clincher

Noun

clinker (uncountable)

1. (nautical, chiefly attributive) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.

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