Definition of Clinker brick

1. Noun. A hard brick used as a paving stone.

Exact synonyms: Clinker
Generic synonyms: Brick

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clinker Brick

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clink
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clinked
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clinker blocks
clinker brick (current term)
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clino-
clinoatacamite
clinobehoite

Literary usage of Clinker brick

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by Nathan Clarke Johnson, George Albert Hool (1920)
"According to the degree of burning and location in the kiln, common brick are generally known as arch or clinker brick, body, cherry, or hard brick, ..."

2. Refuse Disposal and Power Production by Walter Francis Goodrich (1904)
"To the late Mr. John McTaggart, of Bradford, belongs the credit of first directing attention in this country to the possibilities of the clinker brick. ..."

3. Modern Destructor Practice by Walter Francis Goodrich (1912)
"That there is a good future for the clinker brick is practically certain ... Among the few municipalities in England possessing clinker brick- making plant ..."

4. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"clinker brick. A very hard-burned brick, so called from its metallic sound when struck. Hardly to l>e distinguished from Arch Brick, B. Move specifically, ..."

5. Building Stones and Clay-products: A Handbook for Architects by Heinrich Ries (1912)
"Ashlar Brick. A term often applied to certain brick, whose one edge is rough chiseled to resemble rock-faced stone. clinker brick. A very hard burned brick. ..."

6. Portland Cement: Its Composition, Raw Materials, Manufacture, Testing and by Richard Kidder Meade (1911)
"... considered superior to the silica brick In place of fire brick a concrete or clinker brick made from Portland cement clinker and Portland cement is used ..."

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