clinker

Definition

A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.

Etymology

From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).

Example Sentences

• "She left the road at the little shed where he whom she still regarded as her father used to keep his tricycle, and walked up the clinker path towards the house."
• "The coal was terrible stuff—Indian, Abdul told me. The "dart" was used often and I saw some monster clinkers."
• "Cold and grim sat that malevolent brute the furnace, greedy, bottomless—its grate bars clenched over clinkers which no shaker could dislodge."