Clinker

Clinker is made when exposed coal seams are ignited by prairie fires, which turns rocks and minerals into a sort of slag.

The Volokh Conspiracy » An Insufficiently Deferential D.C. Circuit? 2010

"Your Honor," Truslow said, smiling at Perry Mason, "let it appear that the witness identifies the Persian cat, about the neck of which is affixed a tag bearing the words 'Clinker' and the initials 'H.B.,' in the handwriting of Hamilton Burger, the district attorney."

The Case of the Caretaker's Cat Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1935

"You are familiar with the cat now in court, with a tag around its neck upon which the word 'Clinker' appears?"

The Case of the Caretaker's Cat Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1935

"Clinker," Ashton said, sitting down in the big, overstuffed, black leather chair, standing his crutch straight in front of him, holding it with both hands.

The Case of the Caretaker's Cat Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1935

"Clinker," he said, "how would you like to go for a nice ride somewhere?"

The Case of the Caretaker's Cat Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1935

"But, my dear Jerny, you must admit that your 'Clinker' 's inclined to be just -- a le-e-etle cow-hocked, come now, b'gad?"

The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

Marquis of Jerningham's "Clinker" would leave the field nowhere, and that Captain Slingsby's "Rascal" would run away with it.

The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

One of their men, Antonio, son of a chief on the Bonny river, who had joined them from HM brig "Clinker," was especially alarmed -- not on his own account, as he said that his life was of no consequence, but that he feared that his two white friends, whom he loved so dearly, might be killed.

Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

On the night of the twenty-third, did Perry Mason appear at your apartment carrying the cat known as Clinker and which is now in Court? "

The Case of the Caretaker's Cat Gardner, Erle Stanley, 1889-1970 1935

Thobal at seven a.m., meeting slight resistance till within 300 yards of river, three feet to six feet deep, and fifty yards broad; there seeing a burning bridge, I galloped up on poor "Clinker" (the old steeplechasing

My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny 1891