clinker

Meanings

Noun

• A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
• A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
• Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
• 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.
• Hardened volcanic lava.
• A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
• Someone or something that clinks.
• Fetters.
• A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.

Verb

• To convert or be converted into clinker.

Related

Similar words

• lapstrake

Origin

• From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken.
• From clink + -er.
• From clincher