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clinker
One who clinks or an item that clinks, hence fetters are also called clinkers
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Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling
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Clink, derived from clinch, hence one who clinches or that clinches
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Hardened volcanic lava
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{n} a kind of paving brick, bad cinders
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Slaggy or vitreous masses of coal ash Clinkers form the area of naturally burning coal fires and are later exposed by erosion
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Powdered cement, produced by heating a properly proportioned mixture of finely ground raw materials (calcium carbonate, silica, alumina, and iron oxide) in a kiln to a temperature of about 2,700oF
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{i} stony matter; failure (Slang)
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A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln
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A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat
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A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging
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A kind of brick
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A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging
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Or clencher; Hull planking running fore-and-aft with the lower edge of each strake overlapping outboard the upper edge of the plank below it Clinker strakes are usually secured to each other by nails with roved heads (i e the nail ends have a flat washer placed over them and are then mushroomed over with a hammer) See carvel
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Red-hot, marble-sized chunks that emerge from the lower end of a (cement) kiln
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a hard brick used as a paving stone
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The edges of the planks are overlapped to form an irregular exterior, much like siding on a house Also called lapstrake
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The material that emerges from the cement kiln after burning It is in the form of dark, porous nodules which are ground with a small amount of gypsum to give cement
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clear out the cinders and clinker from; "we clinkered the fire frequently"
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See Dutch clinker, under Dutch
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And old form of wooden shell constructed from planks, rather than by moulding Rarely seen
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a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
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turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning
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Waste rock left behind when flammable minerals are burned at very high temperatures
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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
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a hard brick used as a paving stone turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning clear out the cinders and clinker from; "we clinkered the fire frequently
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A clinker is coagulated slag or metal impurities that "melt" from the coal as it becomes coke Most clinkers consist of pyrites that are naturally included in coal seams Using "metallurgical" grade coal (met coal) greatly reduces clinkers Clinkers will block air flow from the tuyere and that is why the firepot has a clinker breaker Large clinkers will have to be removed with a poker
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(Humphrey) Hero of Smollett's novel so called The general scheme of Oliver Twist resembles it Humphrey is a workhouse boy, put out apprentice; but being afterwards reduced to great want, he attracts the notice of Mr Bramble, who takes him into his service He turns out to be Bramble's natural son, and falls in love with Winifred Jenkins, Miss Bramble's maid
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A rough, jagged fragment
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A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands
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A method of planking in which the lower edge of each strake overlaps the upper edge of the strake next below (Also called lapstrake )