clinker

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  1. noun The incombustible residue, fused into an irregular lump, that remains after the combustion of coal.
  2. noun A partially vitrified brick or a mass of bricks fused together.
  3. noun An extremely hard burned brick.
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  • These were long and lean, clinker-built, gaudily painted, many with stemposts carved into fantastic figureheads. —  The Boat of a Million Years
  • So, his next show at the Sands in Vegas, he runs his act non-stop twenty-seven hours, with not a repeat or a clinker in the bunch. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • If it's a clinker, say so, reject the damned thing. —  Space
  • Anything used to make a noise on a corrugated iron wall or clinker-built fence by dragging it along the surface while walking past it. —  The Meaning of Liff
  • 'You never would think' er a thoroughbred clinker, —  Songs Of Action
 

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  1. Obsolete Dutch klinckaerd, from Middle Dutch klinken, to clink; see clink1. N., senses 5 and 6, from clink1.

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  1. from clink + -er. In the sense of ‘vitrified brick,’ etc., also spelled klinker, being = German klinker, from Dutch klinker, a vitrified brick, also a sounder, a vowel, Middle Dutch klinckaerd (later Swedish klinkert), a vitrified brick, also (= Middle Low German klinkart, klinkert) a certain gold coin; cf. Danish klinke, a clinker: see clink, n.
  2. from clinker, n.
 

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/ˈklɪŋkər/
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