See clinker in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XXXII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 581:",
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"ref": "1942 July-August, Philip Spencer, “On the footplate in Egypt”, in Railway Magazine, page 208:",
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"ref": "1944, Emily Carr, “Dew and Alarm Clocks”, in The House of All Sorts:",
"text": "Cold and grim sat that malevolent brute the furnace, greedy, bottomless—its grate bars clenched over clinkers which no shaker could dislodge.",
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"ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
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"ref": "2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 10:",
"text": "Nobody could pretend that a huge slope of clinker is aesthetically pleasing.",
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"ref": "1923, United States Geological Survey, Bulletin 748, page 125:",
"text": "This burning has baked and clinkered the adjacent strata, producing a very resistant formation, which rises with conspicuous abruptness from the flat terrace underlain by the soft Lebo shale member.",
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"ref": "1981, David W. Schultz, Municipal solid waste, resource recovery: Proceedings of the seventh annual research symposium at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 16-18:",
"text": "The use of coal with a low ash fusion temperature (1204°C, or 2200°F) caused frequent clinkering on the grate during initial tests. The clinkering stopped when the coal was replaced with one having a higher fusion temperature […]",
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"ref": "1944, Emily Carr, “Dew and Alarm Clocks”, in The House of All Sorts:",
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"ref": "2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 10:",
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"word": "クリンカー"
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"ref": "1923, United States Geological Survey, Bulletin 748, page 125:",
"text": "This burning has baked and clinkered the adjacent strata, producing a very resistant formation, which rises with conspicuous abruptness from the flat terrace underlain by the soft Lebo shale member.",
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"ref": "1981, David W. Schultz, Municipal solid waste, resource recovery: Proceedings of the seventh annual research symposium at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 16-18:",
"text": "The use of coal with a low ash fusion temperature (1204°C, or 2200°F) caused frequent clinkering on the grate during initial tests. The clinkering stopped when the coal was replaced with one having a higher fusion temperature […]",
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"fetters."
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"sense": "sthg that clinks",
"word": "叮当响的东西"
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"word": "clinker-built"
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"text": "clinker planking; a clinker dinghy"
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"word": "buc tinglat"
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"word": "limisauma"
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"word": "trincado"
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