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A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.

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  1. n. A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
  2. n. 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. n. A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
  4. n. A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.
  5. n. a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
  6. n. a hard brick used as a paving stone
  7. v. clear out the cinders and clinker from
  8. v. turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning
  9. 1. A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln. 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. A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging. 4. A kind of brick. See Dutch klinker, under Dutch.
  10. n:100 n. a hard brick used as a paving stone v. clear out the cinders and clinker from v. turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning