'Clinker' definitions:
Definition of 'clinker'
(from WordNet)
noun
A fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire [syn: cinder, clinker]
noun
A hard brick used as a paving stone [syn: clinker, clinker brick]
verb
Clear out the cinders and clinker from; "we clinkered the fire frequently"
verb
Turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning
Definition of 'Clinker'
From: GCIDE
- Clinker \Clink"er\ (kl[i^][ng]k"[~e]r), n. [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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'clinker'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adobe,
- alluvion,
- alluvium,
- ash,
- ashes,
- ashlar,
- atonalism,
- atonality,
- brand,
- brick,
- bricks and mortar,
- cacophony,
- calx,
- carbon,
- cement,
- charcoal,
- cinder,
- coal,
- coke,
- concrete,
- coom,
- covering materials,
- deposition,
- deposits,
- diluvium,
- discord,
- discordance,
- discordancy,
- disharmony,
- dissonance,
- dissonancy,
- dissonant chord,
- draff,
- dregs,
- dross,
- ember,
- feces,
- ferroconcrete,
- firebrick,
- flag,
- flagstone,
- flatness,
- flooring,
- froth,
- fume,
- grounds,
- inharmoniousness,
- inharmony,
- lath and plaster,
- lava,
- lees,
- loess,
- masonry,
- moraine,
- mortar,
- off note,
- offscum,
- pavement,
- paving,
- paving material,
- plasters,
- precipitate,
- precipitation,
- prestressed concrete,
- reek,
- roofage,
- roofing,
- scoria,
- scum,
- sediment,
- settlings,
- sharpness,
- siding,
- silt,
- sinter,
- slag,
- smoke,
- smudge,
- smut,
- soot,
- sour note,
- sourness,
- stone,
- stridor,
- sublimate,
- sullage,
- tile,
- tiling,
- tunelessness,
- unharmoniousness,
- unmusicality,
- untunefulness,
- walling,
- wolf