clinker

1 a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire [syn: cinder]

2 a hard brick used as a paving stone [syn: clinker brick]

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

English

Alternative spellings

• klinker

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪŋkə(r)

Noun

1. Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
2. Hardened volcanic lava.
3. A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
4. A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
5. A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
6. One who clinks or an item that clinks, hence fetters are also called clinkers.
7. Clink, derived from clinch, hence one who clinches or that clinches.

Derived terms

• clinker block
• Clinker-built, especially boats. Built by overlapping timber boards that are fixed by clinched nails.

Clinker may refer to:

• Clinker (boat building), construction method for wooden boats
• Clinker (waste), waste from industrial processes
• Clinker (cement), a kilned then quenched cement product
• Clinker brick, rough dark coloured bricks
• Clinker Peak, a volcanic peak in British Columbia, Canada

Clinker may also be used for:

• Small rocks that form in some ʻAʻā lava flows
• Waste from coal fires

People with the surname Clinker

• Humphry Clinker, title character of Tobias Smollett's 1771 novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

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