noun Download 🔗Share A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands. Examples : "The garden path, paved with reddish-brown clinkers, led to the front door of the Dutch farmhouse. " material architecture building Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat. Examples : "After the factory fire, all that remained of the brick oven were black clinkers. " material architecture building Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling. Examples : "After the coal fire burned all night, the bottom of the stove was full of hard, black clinkers that needed to be removed. " material substance industry Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "Workers unloaded the hot, gray clinkers from the cement kiln, ready to be ground into the fine powder that becomes Portland cement. " material substance industry building chemistry geology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Hardened volcanic lava. Examples : "The rough, black clinkers covered the side of the volcano, making it difficult to climb. " geology material Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging. Examples : "After a long day of forging, the blacksmith had to remove the clinkers that had formed on the surface of the hot iron. " material substance industry Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Someone or something that clinks. Examples : "The wind chimes outside the window were constant clinkers, their glass pieces gently hitting each other. " sound thing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (in the plural) Fetters. Examples : "The prisoner rattled his clinkers, the heavy chains binding his wrists. " law police Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
