Usually means: Hardened, stony residue from burning.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. clinker: Merriam-Webster
  2. clinker, clinker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clinker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clinker: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clinker: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clinker, clinker: Wordnik
  7. clinker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Clinker, clinker: Wiktionary
  9. clinker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. clinker: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Clinker, clinker: Dictionary.com
  12. clinker: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Clinker (boat building), Clinker (cement), Clinker (disambiguation), Clinker (sound artist), Clinker (waste), Clinker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Clinker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. clinker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. clinker: Rhymezone
  17. Clinker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. CLINKER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  19. Clinker: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. clinker: FreeDictionary.org
  21. clinker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. clinker: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. clinker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  24. Clinker: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. clinker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jazz Humor (No longer online)

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Clinker (boat building), clinker: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clinker: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Clinker: Underwater Archaeology Glossary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. clinker, clinker, clinker, clinker, clinker, clinker, clinker, clinker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. clinker: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See clinkering as well.)

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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