clinker

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
noun a hard brick used as a paving stone
verb clear out the cinders and clinker from

From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).

"Ain't drappin' behind," growled Clinker. — An Undivided Union, Oliver Optic
And did Clinker go well?" — Antony Gray,—Gardener, LM (Leslie Moore)
See also Humphry Clinker, ii. — Footsteps of Dr. Johnson (Scotland), George Birkbeck Norman Hill

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