clinker : Idioms & Phrases

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clinker block

  • noun a light concrete building block made with cinder aggregate
    cinder block; breeze block.
    • cinder blocks are called breeze blocks in Britain
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clinker brick

  • noun a hard brick used as a paving stone
    clinker.
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clinker-built

  • adjective having overlapping hull planks
    lap-strake; clincher-built; lap-straked; lap-streak; lap-streaked.
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Clink"er-built adjective
Definitions
  1. (Naut.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.
Webster 1913

Dutch clinker

  • a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape.
Webster 1913