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How to pronounce clinker in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms clinker brick
Type of brick
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Synonyms cinder
Type of fragment
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Type of clean out, clear out


we clinkered the fire frequently.
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Type of change

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It is 23 m long, c 4 m wide, of clinker type, and built for 15 pairs of oars.
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This method is still used in small clinker built dinghies and similar craft.
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The living room is lined with redwood paneling and features a clinker brick fireplace.
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Moreover, she felt natives worked best with the modernist clinker brick architecture.
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The high F is a real clinker, with a loose pin that can become a bigger problem over time.
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The core ingredient of cement, clinker, requires large amounts of heat.
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More kingpins of a once model economy of dreams of grandeur are to follow into the clinker.
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In the 1930s a clinker-built boat was discovered in rebuilding the Railway Inn public house.
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Clinker is rock that has been fused by the natural burning of coal.
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More examples
  • Cinder: a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
  • Clear out the cinders and clinker from; "we clinkered the fire frequently"
  • A hard brick used as a paving stone
  • Turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning
  • Clinker building is a method of constructing hulls of boats and ships by fixing wooden planks and, in the early nineteenth century, iron plates to each other so that the planks overlap along their edges. The overlapping joint is called a land. ...
  • In the manufacture of Portland cement, clinker is the solid material produced by the cement kiln stage that has sintered into lumps or nodules, typically of diameter 3-25 mm.
  • Clinker (Gary James Joynes) is a sound artist, composer, and visual artist from Edmonton, Canada. Recent work includes the live cinema piece On the Other Side... (for L. ...
  • Clinker is a general name given to waste from industrial processes u2014 particularly those that involve smelting metals, burning fossil fuels and using a blacksmith's forge which will usually result in a large buildup of clinker around the tuyere. Clinker often forms a loose, black deposit that can consist of coke, coal, slag, charcoal, grit, and other waste materials.
  • Hardened volcanic lava; A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging; A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands; One who clinks or an item that clinks, hence fetters are also called clinkers; Clink, derived from clinch, hence one who clinches or that clinches