CLINKER

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

ring

RING (O.E. hring; a word common to Teutonic languages; and probably cognate with the Lat. circus, Gr. KtpKOS or KpLKOS, Skt'. chakra,
wheel
- WHEEL (0. Eng. hweol, hweohl, &c., cognate with Icel. hjol, Dan. hiul, the Indo-European
  root
  - ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
  - ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
  is seen in Sanskrit chakra, Gr. r in Aos, circle, whence " cycle ")
- WHEEL, BREAKING ON THE
, circle, cf. also " harangue "); in art, a
band
- BAND
of circular shape of varying sizes, made of any material and used f

), a hard paving

brick

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)

, a

brick

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)

with a vitrified surface, or a fused

mass

of brick; also the incombustible

residue

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

of coal, which occurs, half-fused into hard masses, in grates or furnaces; a fused

mass

lava

LAVA

. (2) (From clinch, or clench, a common Teutonic word, meaning " to fasten together "), a

term

TERM

appearing usually in the form " clinker-built " as opposed to " cravel-built," for a

boat

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.)

whose stoles overlap and are not fastened. " flush."

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