Usually means: Heating raw materials to form cement.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Clinker)

noun:  A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
noun:  A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
noun:  Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
noun:  An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
noun:  Hardened volcanic lava.
noun:  A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To convert or be converted into clinker.
noun:  Someone or something that clinks.
noun:  (in the plural) fetters.
noun:  (nautical, chiefly attributive) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
noun:  A surname.
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