Crossword clues for clinker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clinker \Clink"er\ (kl[i^][ng]k"[~e]r), n. [From clink; cf. D. clinker a brick which is so hard that it makes a sonorous sound, from clinken to clink. Cf. Clinkstone.]
A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.
A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.
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" is first recorded 1950 in American English; originally (1942) "a wrong note in music."
Wiktionary
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 residue upon cooling. (from 18th c.) 4 An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sinter limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodule in a cement kiln. 5 Hardened volcanic lava. (from 19th c.) 6 A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging. (from 19th c.) Etymology 2
n. 1 Someone or something that clinks. 2 (context in the plural English) fetters.
WordNet
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 clinker under excessive heat in burning
Wikipedia
Clinker may refer to:
- Clinker (boat building), construction method for wooden boats
- Clinker (waste), waste from industrial processes
- Clinker (cement), a kilned then quenched cement product
- Clinker brick, rough dark coloured bricks
- Clinker Peak, a volcanic peak in British Columbia, Canada
- Clinkers (confectionery), a chocolate-coated candy in Australia
- Gary James Joynes, a.k.a. Clinker
Clinker may also be used for:
- Small rocks that form in some ʻAʻā lava flows
- Waste from Coal seam fires
- Jail Cell
Clinker built (also known as lapstrake) is a method of boat building where the edges of hull planks overlap, called a "land" or "landing." In craft of any size planks are also joined end to end into a strake. The technique developed in northern Europe and was successfully used by the Norsemen and typical for the Hanseatic cog. A contrasting method, where plank edges are butted smoothly seam to seam, is known as carvel construction.
Examples of clinker-built boats directly descended from those of Norsemen shipbuilders are the traditional round-bottomed Thames skiffs of the River Thames, and the larger (originally) cargo-carrying Norfolk wherries of England.
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) limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay during the cement kiln stage.
Clinker is a general name given to waste from industrial processes — 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.
Clinker may be reused for paving footpaths. It is laid and rolled, and forms a hard path with a rough surface.
Clinker often has a glassy look to it. It is much heavier than coke.
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. Cohen), commissioned by the 2008 Leonard Cohen International Festival in Edmonton, Alberta as well as the soundtrack for the documentary Dirt.
He is fascinated by the sources of electronic composition and the ever-evolving language of technology; objects and mechanisms stimulate his process. As Clinker, his work explores meditative spaces and the kinesthetic and synesthetic effects of sound and visuals.
Recent work includes "On the Other Side..." a Live Cinema piece commissioned by the 2008 International Leonard Cohen Festival. A film score for the National Film Board of Canada's award winning feature documentary “DIRT" was composed by Clinker and premiered at the Vancouver Doxa Festival in May 2008. His 2007 Live Cinema performance work "Provody" was selected to open the Mutek Festival 8TH. edition in Montreal.
Clinker's latest audio work entitled "On the Other Side... (for L.Cohen)" was released to critical acclaim on the Los Angeles Sound Art Label, Dragon's Eye Recordings, in January 2009. Through the Fall/Winter of 2009 Clinker was an artist in residence at the Banff Centre of the Arts (BNMI) advancing new ideas in visual music for future audio-visual sculptural installations.
Recent performances include Roulette Mixology Festival (New York), High Performance Rodeo 2010 (Calgary), (((Soundwave))) (Vancouver Island), Mutek_10 (Montreal), Mutek_10 TOUR (Edmonton), Emmedia Sonic Boom 2009 (Calgary), Banff Centre - BNMI Interactive Screen (2008 & 2007 editions) and the 2008 Leanord Cohen International Festival.
The last few years have seen Clinker’s work performed and exhibited in Canada and abroad in festivals including Tanzstartklar Festival 2008 (Graz, Austria), New Forms Festival 2007 & 2003 (Vancouver), Sprawl - Interplay_4 Festival 2007 (Amsterdam, Dublin, London, Bristol), Sea of Sound Festival 2005 (The Works - Edmonton), Mutek Le Placard Festival 2005 (Montreal), Standart 2003 (Madrid, Spain). In May 2003 Clinker made his premiere outside his native Alberta at the 2003 Mutek Festival.
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.