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clinked | clinker |

As a verb clinked

is (clink).

As a noun clinker is

a very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the netherlands or clinker can be someone or something that clinks or clinker can be .

clinked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (clink)

    • clink

    English

    Etymology 1

    Onomatpoeic, as metal against metal. Related to (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m). Maybe from (etyl) , related to call. English onomatopoeias

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
    • You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
    • When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
    • The hammers clinked on the stone all night.
  • * Tennyson
    • the clinking latch
  • (humorous, dated) To rhyme.

    • Etymology 2

    From prison in Southwark, London, itself presumably named after sound of doors being bolted or chains rattling.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) Jail or prison, after (w) prison in Southwark, London. Used in the phrase (in the clink).
    • If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink .
  • Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * in the clink

    clinker

    English

    Alternative forms

    * klinker

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) klinkaerd, later (klinker), from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
  • A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
  • Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
  • An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering]] limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into [[nodule, nodules in a cement kiln.
  • Hardened volcanic lava.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 10:
    • Nobody could pretend that a huge slope of clinker is aesthetically pleasing.
  • A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
    • Derived terms
    * clinker block

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone or something that clinks.
  • (in the plural) Fetters.
    • Derived terms
    * clinkerwise

    Etymology 3

    From

    Noun

    (-) (nautical) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks; used chiefly attributively in terms such as clinker planking, clinker dinghy etc.
    Synonyms
    * lapstrake
    Derived terms
    * clinker-built

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