clinker

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After cooling, the clinker is ground into very fine powder, which is the Portland cement of commerce.

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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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  • His first two wishes “seemed airtight, clinker-built, foolproof to him, he had even recommended them to others, like standard legal forms.” Wish Number One is for safety and health (physical, mental, long-lived) for himself and his loved ones; Wish Number Two for a guaranteed, not onerously obtained income. —  FSFMagazine,July2007
  • This ground material passes through kilns and comes out in "clinker." —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • The operation is continuous, a constant supply of chalk passing in at one end of the kiln and a continuous dribble of clinker-balls dropping out at the other. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • After cooling, the clinker is ground into very fine powder, which is the Portland cement of commerce It is self-evident that an ideal kiln would be one that produced the maximum quantity of thoroughly clinkered material with a minimum amount of fuel, labor, and investment. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • Since his divorce three years earlier Reno had rented the left half of a clinker-built shotgun duplex on Cherokee Street, half hidden in a lush riot of banana plants. —  EQMM, November 2006
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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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