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Definition of Clunches
1. clunch [n] - See also: clunch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clunches
Literary usage of Clunches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1881)
"... or clunches. ‘The word was applied primarily to the separate lumps obtained
by digging in a limestone or other quarry, and afterwards, it seems, ..."
2. A Critical Examination of the First Principles of Geology: In a Series of Essays by George Bellas Greenough (1819)
"... that a bed of clay, usually known " by the name of the Upper clunches, " bears
a thickness of from fifteen to " twenty-six feet in all the above-men- ..."
3. Transactions of the Geological Society of London by Geological Society of London (1811)
"That a bed of clay, usually known by the name of faer tipper clunches, bears a
thickness of from fifteen to twenty-six feet in all the above mentioned ..."
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