What is "clinkers"

Usage examples of "clinkers".

The black blood, winking in the starlight, seeped down into the clinkers between the ties with a prolonged sucking murmur.

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.

They waded through ground-glasslike clinkers in which they sank to the knees.

Outside, underneath their window, they heard the sound of hurried footsteps crushing into the clinkers by the side of the ties.

The surface of that narrow strip is for the more part of broken coral lime-stone, like volcanic clinkers, and excruciating to the naked foot.

On each projection of the coast, the bank of coral clinkers immediately above the beach has been levelled, and a pillar built, perhaps breast-high.