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Clinker   Listen
noun
Clinker  n.  
1.
A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
2.
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.
3.
A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
4.
A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.





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"Clinker" Quotes from Famous Books



... end of the shrubbery, where the rockery was, Gustus stooped and dragged out a big clinker—then another, and another. There was a hole like a big rabbit-hole. If Edward had really been a white rabbit it would just have ...
— The Magic World • Edith Nesbit
... an unusual extent centres of the literary life of their time; and if the great Ben had his tribe of imitators and adulators, Dr. Toby also had his clan of sub-authors, delineated for us by a master hand in the pages of Humphry Clinker. To make Fielding the centre-piece of a group reflecting the literature of his day would be an artistic impossibility. It would be perfectly easy in the case of Smollett, who was descried by critics from afar as a Colossus bestriding the summit ...
— Travels Through France and Italy • Tobias Smollett
... sun-gilt cloud that rose over its scared forehead, like that still brighter halo which glorifies it in the memories of the Scottish people. Many a long-cherished association drew my thoughts to Edinburgh. I was acquainted with Ramsay, and Fergusson, and the "Humphrey Clinker" of Smollett, and had read a description of the place in the "Marmion" and the earlier novels of Scott; and I was not yet too old to feel as if I were approaching a great magical city—like some of those in the "Arabian Nights"—that ...
— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller


Words linked to "Clinker" :   cinder, clinker block, brick, fragment, clinker-built, clear out, clean out, clinker brick, change


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