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Webster 1913 Edition
Clinker
Clink′er
(klĭṉk′ẽr)
, Noun.
[From
clink
; cf. D. clinker
a brick which is so hard that it makes a sonorous sound, from clinken
to clink. Cf. Clinkstone
.] 1.
A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
2.
Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.
3.
A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
4.
A kind of brick. See
Dutch clinker
, under Dutch
.