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Furnace slag
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clinker
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thumb|200px|right|Typical clinker nodules thumb|200px|right|Hot clinker In the manufacture of Portland cement , clinker occurs as lumps or nodules, usually to in diameter, produced by sintering (fused together without melting to the point of liquefaction) ...
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Etymology 1 n. 1 A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands. (from 17th c.) 2 A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat. (from 17th c.) 3 slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard ...
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n. a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire [syn: cinder ] a hard brick used as a paving stone [syn: clinker brick ] v. clear out the cinders and clinker from; "we clinkered the fire frequently" turn to clinker or form ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"mass of slag," 1769, from klincard (1640s), a type of paving brick made in Holland, from Dutch klinkaerd , from klinken "to ring" (as it does when struck), of imitative origin. Also "a clinch-nail;" hence clinker-built (1769). The meaning "stupid mistake" ...
Usage examples of clinker.
With two spatulate hands the handling-machine was digging out and flinging masses of clay into the pear-shaped receptacle above, while with another arm it periodically opened a door and removed rusty and blackened clinkers from the middle part of the machine.
Ahead, the way was barred by a circular hole in the deckplate, ringed by rusty handrails - a waste chute, scorched and blackened where clinker from the furnaces had been tipped down.
A pile of slag and clinker lay spilled across the track-marks, where London had vented it the day before.
His department is always keen to find new and inventive ways to kill people, and he is still excited at the thought of the dry, charred shapes he saw littering the streets and squares of Panzerstadt-Bayreuth, many of them still standing upright, flashed into clinker statues by the gaze of MEDUSA.
He himself fished in the cooling tank as soon as the steam had dispersed, and he found two more diamonds embedded in the clinker at the bottom.
The gray object visible through the window of the ship looked like a piece of clinker from the grate of a brazier.
Lora looks like a lump of clinker, the space station a tiny filigree on its side.
At the end of his muscular brown legs stuck out deep-cut rubber climbing boots, compared with which the blond boy's clinkered ones looked almost diminutive.
The beams cut off then, leaving a clinkered hulk, its glow already fading.
Then it was hurtling upward, propelled high even as the clinkered sides stove in between the serpent's jaws.
For as far as the eye could see were bleak ash flats relieved by grotesque columns of clinkered limestone.
Lightened, I return to my makeshift bed by the side of the cold, page clinkered grate.
Then it was hurtling upward, propelled high even as the clinkered sides stove in between the serpent’s jaws.
A few feet away from her, the stream of lava was dark and clinkered on its surface.
Taxing his reserve strength to the utmost, he reeled to the top of the pit and then plunged down, an avalanche of needle-pointed clinkers sliding in a brittle wash behind him.