1. the incombustible residue, fused into an irregular lump, that remains after the combustion of coal.
2. A partially vitrified brick or a mass of bricks fused together.
3. an extremely hard burned brick.
4. vitrified matter expelled by a volcano.
5. slang A sour note in a musical performance: hit a clinker.
6. slang A mistake; a blunder.
7. slang something of inferior quality; a conspicuous failure: a clinker of a show.
8. chiefly british something admirable or first-rate.
9. to form clinkers in burning.

1. someone or something that clinks.
2. fetters.
3. someone or something that clinches.

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 clinker, under dutch.

1. to form clinker; become incrusted with clinker.
2. that which clinks. specifically
3. A metal-heeled shoe used in dancing jigs.
4. the partly melted and agglutinated residuum of the combustion of coal which has a fusible ash.
5. A partially vitrified brick or mass of bricks.
6. A kind of hard dutch or flemish brick, used for paving yards and stables.
7. vitrified or burnt matter thrown up by a volcano.
8. A scale of black oxid of iron, formed when iron is heated to redness in the open air.
9. A deep impression of a horse's or cow's foot; a small puddle so formed.
10. in cricket, a ball bowled exceedingly well.

1. clear out the cinders and clinker from
2. turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning
3. a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
4. a hard brick used as a paving stone