D defs.my
Entry 4 senses Webster, 1913

Clinker

/(klĭṉk"ẽr)/ · Clink·er · IPA /ˈklɪŋkɚ/
01 n. A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
  1. 1.
    A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
  2. 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. 3.
    A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
  4. 4.
    A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch. See: Dutch