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Definition of Cinder block
1. Noun. A light concrete building block made with cinder aggregate. "Cinder blocks are called breeze blocks in Britain"
Definition of Cinder block
1. Noun. A lightweight building block made from cinders and concrete. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cinder Block
Literary usage of Cinder block
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Patentable Invention by Edward Sabine Renwick (1893)
"cooled cinder block " inserted in the closed breast at the proper height for ...
The through passage of this water cooled cinder block was closed by a plug ..."
2. Fire Prevention and Fire Protection as Applied to Building Construction: A by Joseph Kendall Freitag (1912)
"The New York Building Department tests included two cinder-block
constructions—-the "Bell," and the metal-braced "Sanitary" type — but neither
have had any ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1888)
"... cinder-block, iv, 101, 180, 183, 370, 377; Method of determining horizontal
section, iii, 106; Monolithic hearths, iv, 186; New outline for ..."
4. The Metallurgy of Iron and Steel: Theoretical and Practical: in All Its by Henry Stafford Osborn (1869)
"To do this, it is only necessary, after tapping, to replace the tymp plate with
the cinder block plate, which is also cooled with water. ..."
5. The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation Into Laboratory Practices and Alleged by Michael R. Bromwich (1998)
"Concrete blocks for a cinder block wall, something of that nature; an unopened
box of photocopy paper; these items were removed from their original position ..."
6. An Outline of the Metallurgy of Iron and Steel: Prepared for the Use of by Heinrich Oscar Hofman, Robert Hallowell Richards (1904)
"These are the iron cinder breast A, having a height equal to the thickness of
the crucible wall ; the cinder block B ..."
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