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clinker
1[ kling-ker ]
noun
, Slang.
- any mistake or error.
- something that is a failure; a product of inferior quality.
- a wrong note in a musical performance.
- British. someone or something wonderful or exceedingly well-liked.
clinker
2[ kling-ker ]
noun
- a person or thing that clinks.
clinker
3[ kling-ker ]
noun
- a mass of incombustible matter fused together, as in the burning of coal.
- a hard Dutch brick, used especially for paving.
- a partially vitrified mass of brick.
- the scale of oxide formed on iron during forging.
- Geology. a mass of vitrified material ejected from a volcano.
verb (used without object)
- to form clinkers in burning.
clinker
/ ˈklɪŋkə /
noun
- the ash and partially fused residues from a coal-fired furnace or fire
- Also calledclinker brick a hard brick used as a paving stone
- a partially vitrified brick or mass of brick
- slang.something of poor quality, such as a film
- slang.a mistake or fault, esp a wrong note in music
verb
- intr to form clinker during burning
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Word History and Origins
Origin of clinker3
First recorded in 1635–45; from Dutch klinker (formerly klinkaerd ) “slag”; also a kind of brick, derivative of klinken, clinken “to clink” (from the sound the material makes when struck)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of clinker1
C17: from Dutch klinker a type of brick, from obsolete klinckaerd, literally: something that clinks (referring to the sound produced when one was struck), from klinken to clink 1
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Example Sentences
They were all clinker built of yellow pine, double fastened with copper nails, clinched over rooves.
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"Well, we are here," said Artie, after Clinker's wound had been examined and dressed.
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They, the clinker canoes, are easily tightened when they spring a leak through being rattled over stones in rapids.
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And now I will give my reasons for preferring the clinker-built cedar boat, or canoe, to any other.
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There is only one objection to the clinker-built canoe that occurs to me as at all plausible.
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