Clunch

Clunch

Clunch\, n. [Perh. fr. clinch to make fast]

1. (Mining) Indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3.

2. One of the hard beds of the lower chalk. --Dana.
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clunch

noun
hardened clay 
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Clunch is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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