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clinker

/klɪŋkə/

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noun

Clinker

A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.

Examples :

"The driveway was paved with durable, reddish-brown clinker bricks, imported from the Netherlands. "

L'allée était pavée de briques de clinker durables, brun rougeâtre, importées des Pays-Bas.

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noun

Mâchefer

A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.

Examples :

"The old brick factory sometimes produced a large clinker, a fused mass of unusable bricks stuck together. "

L'ancienne briqueterie produisait parfois un grand mâchefer, une masse fusionnée de briques inutilisables collées ensemble.

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noun

Mâchefer, scorie

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 died down, only gray clinker remained in the fireplace. "

Après que le feu de charbon s'est éteint, il ne restait que du mâchefer gris dans la cheminée.

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noun

Clinker

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 :

"The factory workers loaded the hot clinker from the kiln onto the conveyor belt, ready for grinding into cement powder. "

Les ouvriers de l'usine ont chargé le clinker chaud du four sur le convoyeur, prêt à être broyé en poudre de ciment.

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noun

Mâchefer

Hardened volcanic lava.

Examples :

"The black, jagged clinker crunched under my hiking boots as I walked across the old lava field. "

Le mâchefer noir et déchiqueté craquait sous mes chaussures de randonnée alors que je traversais l'ancien champ de lave.

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noun

Mâchefer

A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.

Examples :

"The blacksmith carefully knocked off the clinker clinging to the hot iron as he shaped it. "

Le forgeron a soigneusement enlevé le mâchefer collé au fer chaud pendant qu'il le façonnait.

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verb

Se transformer en mâchefer

To convert or be converted into clinker.

Examples :

"The high heat in the kiln caused the clay mixture to clinker, forming hard, stony lumps. "

La forte chaleur du four a transformé le mélange d'argile en mâchefer, formant des grumeaux durs et pierreux.

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noun

Clingueur

Someone or something that clinks.

Examples :

"The dog's collar was a noisy clinker, jingling with every step he took. "

Le collier du chien était un clingueur bruyant, qui tintentait à chaque pas qu'il faisait.

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noun

Entraves

(in the plural) Fetters.

Examples :

"The escaped prisoner still wore his clinkers, making his escape slow and difficult. "

Le prisonnier évadé portait encore ses entraves, ce qui rendait son évasion lente et difficile.

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noun

Construction à clin

A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.

Examples :

"clinker planking; a clinker dinghy"

Construction à clin ; un dériveur à clin

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