clinker
A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the NetherlandsA very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
» It was a clinker-built rowing boat.
Es handelte sich um ein Klinkerruderboot.
Meaning
10 senses(countable, uncountable)A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
кли́нкерklínker, голла́ндский кирпи́чgollándskij kirpíč
a hard brick used as a paving stone
(countable, uncountable)A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
(countable, uncountable)Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
Schlacke
шлакšlak
(countable, uncountable)An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
(countable, uncountable)Hardened volcanic lava.
(countable, uncountable)A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
Someone or something that clinks.
(in the plural)Fetters.
(slang)A mistake or blunder.
(attributive, uncountable)A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
clinker planking; a clinker dinghy
Klinkerbauweise
Examples
1 sentencesIt was a clinker-built rowing boat.
deEs handelte sich um ein Klinkerruderboot.
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 2
By meaning 2
Origin
From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”). From clincher.From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).
From clincher.
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Forms
plural: clinkersSynonyms
4 synonyms- a hard brick used as a paving stone:clinker brick
- a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire:cinder
Word family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable