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CLINKER . (a) (From an old Dutch word klinkaerd, from klinken, to See also:

RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra, wheel, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a band of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f

ring), a hard paving See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick, a brick with a vitrified See also:

SURFACE

surface, or a fused See also:

mass of brick; also the incombustible See also:

RESIDUE (through the French, from the Lat. residuum, a remainder, from residere, to remain)

residue of See also:

COAL

coal, which occurs, See also:

HALF

half-fused into hard masses, in grates or furnaces; a fused mass of See also:

LAVA

lava. (2) (From clinch, or clench, a See also:

COMMON

common See also:

Teutonic word, meaning " to fasten together "), a See also:

TERM

term appearing usually in the See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form " clinker-built " as opposed to " cravel-built," for a See also:

BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)

boat whose stoles overlap and are not fastened.

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