clinker

Meaning

Noun

1. A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
2. A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
3. Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
4. An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
5. Hardened volcanic lava.
6. A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.

Verb

To convert or be converted into clinker.

Synonyms

cinder

dross

slag

scoria

brick

clinker brick

ember

error

first-class quality

mistake

clipper

scum

clincher

sullage

molten-slag

scoriae

first-rater

molten slag

fused slag

slag block

slag patch

slag lump

coal cinder

coal waste

coal slag

coal refuse

moltenslag

coal

Hyphenated as

clink‧er

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈklɪŋkə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).