(British) hardened clay

Usage examples of clunch.

That clunch Elvin writes that he will still be on his wedding trip, and George cannot leave the milk-and-water miss he married.

For sure the clunch must have skipped every divinity course at university.

What stone was used is clunch, from Tottenhoe in Bedfordshire, which, according to Lord Grimthorpe, is admirably suited for interior work, but absolutely worthless for exterior, as it decays very soon, and if it gets damp is shivered into powder by frost.

The screen is of clunch, a hard stone from the lower chalk formation quarried at Tottenhoe near Dunstable, a stone much used for interior work in the church, though it will not stand exposure to weather in exterior walls.

There is much clunch stone used in the interior and this is in a good state of preservation, but any that has been used externally has decayed.

The abaci of the Early English capitals in the main arcade are of Barnack stone, which is harder than clunch and so more suitable for bearing a weight.

Zipser walked down Free School Lane past the black clunch walls of Corpus.

The blackened walls of brick and clunch were as they had been in his day.

When any of the silly young clunches in my regiment locked up their knees while at attention and keeled over, loosening their collars was always one of the first things I did.

For three days, ever since he'd accompanied Gillian and that cod less clunch, Maynard Leake, on the ride along the river's edge, Gillian had been avoiding him.

An' I says, 'Tha'd better stan' on a bit o' clunch, then, an' hold it up wi' thy 'ead.