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单词 clinker
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“No, nothing's ever lost. We have ways to shake down your clinkers for you.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z
The clinker gives a short, martial note; the green slate a pure, clear, soft sound. Evelyn Glennie's stone xylophone 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z
Have been an admirer of his work since Stop Making Sense....only clinker for me? Jonathan Demme, Oscar-Winning Director, Is Dead at 73 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z
The pencils are super-appealing — not a clinker in the set — and doggedly tenacious: they stay put till prodded. | Pencil This In 2011-03-02T20:30:43Z
"As a result, we have keys made out of Hornfels clinker," says Mitchell. Evelyn Glennie's stone xylophone 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z
But the mere naming of a colour can fall like a piece of clinker in a sentence – it is only a signifier and cannot evoke sensuous beauty. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z
Gornall, a romantic, chooses the classic, ancient clinker design, about which the reader learns far more than we do about his wife and children. Sea of Love: A Father, His Daughter and the Boat He Made for Her 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z
Another is that his voluminous output includes some clinkers and throwaways. Bob Dylan: America’s Great One-Man Songbook 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z
Though beloved by many die-hard fans, it's full of verbal clinkers and is repetitive in the extreme, melodically and lyrically. Review: 'Jesus Christ Superstar' ... I don't know how to love it 2011-05-20T01:30:14Z
Despite the refinement and élan in his playing, his recording of Chopin’s 24 études from the early 1930s is, by today’s standards, littered with clinkers. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z
A few clinkers aside, most of the performances were more than competent, if somewhat studied. Variety and Verve at Make Music New York 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z
At Lava Beds National Monument, the floors come in three textures: ropy, cauliflower and clinker. The Calif. national park — with lava beds — that most people don’t know about 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z
Mr Clinton said Brexit and the trading arrangement that followed had thrown a "clinker" into Northern Ireland's politics. Bill Clinton optimistic about Stormont restoration 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z
Using different raw materials for clinker could dramatically lower the remaining 60 percent of carbon emissions. Solving Cement’s Massive Carbon Problem 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z
With cement, carbon emissions come not just from burning fossil fuels to provide power and heat but also from chemical processes that turn limestone into an ingredient known as clinker. Climate Law a ‘Game Changer’ for Highways and Bridges 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z
The recipe for cement requires lots of a key ingredient called clinker, the crumbly binding agent in the entire mixture. Cement carbon dioxide emissions quietly double in 20 years 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z
Its key ingredient, clinker, comes from neighbouring Senegal, from which all but essential goods are blocked. Mali's workers feel the squeeze as sanctions take hold 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z
Production of clinker, a key ingredient of cement, is bad for the climate and bad for biodiversity. 15 Conservation Issues to Watch in 2022 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z
How it works: Roller mills or ball mills grind the clinker and gypsum into a fine gray powder known as Portland cement. Solving Cement’s Massive Carbon Problem 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z
The ships had overlapping oak planks - a style called Nordic clinker - with tar waterproofing. Norway excavates a Viking longship fit for a king 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z
A sturdy pergola supported by clinker brick and boulder columns marks one of the home’s entryways. Vintage SoCal: Pasadena Craftsman set the stage for the Greenes’ style 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z
The surfaces are also imbued with materials she scavenges, such as clinker bricks from Craftsman-era homes. Datebook: Jasmine Little etches the history of art into contemporary ceramics 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z
And the process of turning limestone into clinker releases huge amounts of planet-warming carbon dioxide—both from the energy required to heat it up, and from the carbon dioxide limestone releases in the process. 15 Conservation Issues to Watch in 2022 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z
PPC plans to introduce mixed-cement products with lower levels of clinker, a stony residue from burned coal ground into cement, in order to reduce the level of dust emissions from their products. South Africa's PPC bows to environmental regulations 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z
It is the process of making "clinker" - the key constituent of cement - that emits the largest amount of CO2 in cement-making. The massive CO2 emitter you may not know about 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z
Some groups are working on chemical formulas that would reduce the amount of "clinker"—the substance that requires the heating of limestone—that goes into the cement. Cement Producers Are Developing a Plan to Reduce CO2 Emissions 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z
If chunks of ash — known as clinkers — stick on the bottom, they may need some muscle. As Washington state looks for cleaner power, a Montana coal town faces an uncertain future 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z
“There is also old debris from steamships, such as unburned coal and bits of clinker, which looks like melted rock, formed in the boilers.” Scientists scooped up some really weird fish in the deep sea off Australia 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z
But there was also a major clinker in the basket and that was the governor’s call for a $100-per-child tax credit for the parents of every child living at home under the age of 18. Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z
In fact, low-carbon cements and "novel cements" might do away with the need for clinker altogether. The massive CO2 emitter you may not know about 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z
White, the Princeton engineer, leads the university's Sustainable Cements Group, which is working on ways to eliminate the need for clinker altogether. Cement Producers Are Developing a Plan to Reduce CO2 Emissions 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z
So will the clinkers - bits of black, tan and rust material. New uses for waste coal in Pennsylvania 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z
In the post-Cosby era, however, such lines might hit clinker notes. Why Vanessa Hudgens and the other stars of Fox's 'Grease Live!' won't 'clean up' the show 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z
“This is a very interesting geological phenomenon,” Bashara said of clinker beds. EarthCache trail teaches geology of Missouri River 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z
The result was a solid amalgam of the two materials known as "clinker". Calcium, building block for the world 2014-03-04T00:20:20Z
Others, such as Ceratech, a cement company in Alexandria, Virginia, are seeking solutions in alternatives to conventional clinker. Green cement: Concrete solutions 2013-02-20T18:21:08.470Z
They were all clinker built of yellow pine, double fastened with copper nails, clinched over rooves. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z
Then pull forward a second portion of the fire, and spread it on the bars, removing the clinker as before. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z
Where coke or ordinary hard coal are used, the removal of clinkers should be done systematically, and the fires stirred. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z
Then the Canario let the bar fall clanging, and seized another, while the heat grew more intense when he raked out the ash and glowing clinker from the flaming tunnel. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z
While the door is open, the clinkers which have accumulated above the grate may be removed, as they are much more easily taken off the grate when they are hot. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z
They express themselves in the form of clinkered holes, excessive smoke, and irregularly fired or sulphured ware. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z
If the grate shakes in sections, more cleaning will be required to break up the clinker, while, if the bars do not shake, the cleaning assumes greater importance. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z
When I tried for the freshman crew in America, I was put with seven other unfortunates into a huge clinker barge, in charge of the sophomore coxswain. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z
I have, in moments when, I am afraid, I was not quite myself, kicked the furnace with considerable force, but I never could see that it had any effect on the clinker. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z
The accumulation of ashes and clinkers at the bottom of the retort will shift this zone upward and impair the quality of gas. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z
The ship, with 27 crew from Algeria, Ukraine and the Philippines, was heading to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from Salalah with a cargo of clinker. Somali pirates hijack ship with 21 Indian sailors from 2011-08-20T12:55:14Z
Before laying the fire the fire bars and ash pan should be cleared of ashes and clinkers, and the grate bars tried with the shaking levers to see that the grates will shake properly. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z
The company said it plans to build a cement grinding and clinker production line in Indonesia, its first overseas production base. China Stocks: Anhui Conch, Jiangxi Wannianqing, Shuangma 2011-07-01T02:17:13Z
But, ordinarily, the shaker is the accepted agent for teaching the clinker its place. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z
These clinkers destroy the refractory lining, form rough projections interfering with the downward movement of the fuel, bring about the formation of arches, and reduce the effective area of the retort. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z
A clinker is a mass of incombustible matter fused together, as in the burning of coal ... also a hard brick used for paving. What to call CenturyLink Field? Here are some ideas 2011-06-22T02:30:05Z
In starting up a banked fire, the first thing to do is to clean it of ashes, clinker, etc., shaking up the bars to see that they will work properly. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z
The assets include a 1.4 million tonnes a year cement plant, a 1.1 million tonnes a year clinker mill, a steel distribution chain and long steel mills. CSN buys Spain's Gallardo in $1.35 billion deal 2011-05-20T19:59:46Z
This is usually very effective in weakening the morale of the clinker, for it then realizes right at the start that it is pitted against a man who is not to be trifled with. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z
Then open the outlet flue and make sure that the grate of the generator is clear of ashes and clinkers. Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines 2011-12-28T03:00:31.087Z
A whirlwind of tempestuous fire mounted to the heavens and the museum emerged a clinker. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z
A safe method is to clean the fire, leaving the clinker and ashes covering the front half of the grate and the fire piled up on the back half. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z
A mixture is made of the excavated soil and powdered fat lime, procured from clinkers and unburnt stone from the lime-kilns, which soon crumbles to fine dust when exposed to the air. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z
This consisted of two simple cells, the primary feature of the design being 'the charging of the refuse into the back of the furnace, and drawing out the resulting clinker from the front'. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z
The boat was of the clinker pattern, had no air-cushions, and was partly constructed of cork. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z
That used for the Lower Boy sculling is known as a "whiff," an open clinker boat with outriggers. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z
In cleaning a fire, first use the slice bar to loosen up the fire and let the ashes fall through, and also dislodge clinkers from the surface of the bars. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z
Now the limestone, along with layers of large pebbles, gravel and a moisture-absorbing volcanic rock known as clinker, comprise the bulk of the playing surface. At French Open, maintaining clay courts is a full-time job 2010-06-02T04:00:00Z
Some portion may be utilized in crushing and screening the clinker, which is frequently used in making slab-paving, or ground fine and used as a substitute for sand in mortar. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z
No. There was the clinker kiln, where a whole burning of bricks was spoiled. A Double Knot
The club has a good boathouse, with the right class of boats for teaching and coaching, viz. steady, roomy, half-outrigged, clinker fours, with keels, convertible as fixed or sliders. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z
Next use the poker to clean out clinker from between the exposed part of the bars. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z
Daniel playing "tag" with a denful of half-starved lions becomes a historic cipher, and the Hebrew children, sitting on a rosy bed of red-hot clinkers in the fiery furnace, are almost forgotten. Cordwood
The material may be either slabs of grey stone as at Kew, or the more easily obtained “clinkers.” Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them
The material is then in a partially burnt and slightly sintered state, but it is not fully clinkered and would not make Portland cement. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics"
The boats used are full outrigged clinkers, with sliding seats. Rowing 2011-01-15T03:00:32.313Z
But his head was humming like a pressure gauge, and his body was banked with unslaked clinkers, and he made his effort as best he could. Where the Pavement Ends
He examined this "clinker" after it cooled, and it interested him. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place
Mrs Morel is very Northern; she has, with the harshness of her latitude, its fine courage and its ambition; Paul Morel, the hero, is Mr Lawrence himself, the little blue flower on the clinker heap. A Novelist on Novels
The output will be about 30 tons of “clinker” ready to be ground into cement. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics"
On each projection of the coast, the bank of coral clinkers immediately above the beach has been levelled, and a pillar built, perhaps breast-high. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25)
These, her mother explained, were partly good, unburned coal, and partly poor, hard bits, called clinkers. A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl Margaret's Saturday Mornings
The flues of each furnace are provided with dampers, which are closed during the process of clinkering in order to keep up the heat. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"
I’ve enough to set me up and buy a tidy sloop—Jack Lee’s; you know the boat, Captain; clinker built, not four years old, eighty tons burthen, steers like a child. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV
It is made by granulating blast furnace slag of suitable composition and finely grinding the product, either alone or with an admixture of about 10% of Portland cement clinker. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics"
Take your clinker hook and level it off. Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike
The result is extemporaneous counterpoint, but without the clinkers we associate with jazz. Modus Vivendi
The wide clinkering doors are suspended by counterbalance weights and open vertically. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"
Go you to your sloop, clinker built, eighty tons burthen—you see I remember. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV
The high temperature necessary to fuse cement clinker makes this process difficult to accomplish commercially, but it has many inherent merits and may be the process of the future, displacing the rotatory method. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics"
It had bits of coal and clinker in the bottom of it. Opportunities
But as it is, gather your cut throats and name the day, and we’ll go scouring the land for heathen souls and yellow clinkers.” The Flute of the Gods
Patent locking fire-bars, to prevent lifting when clinkering, are used in the furnace and have a good life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"
The amount of residue in the shape of clinker and fine ash varies from 22 to 37% of the bulk dealt with. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter"
Oyster shells put one at a time in a stove that is "clinkered" will clean the bricks entirely. Culture and Cooking Art in the Kitchen
They not only shoveled coal into the flames, they had to spread it out as well and at intervals rake out the "clinkers" in fiery masses on the floor. The Harbor
Dominoes and clinkers are all very well, but they rattle about inside, and disturb the visitors; and with an apple you will the more plainly observe that corkscrew. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
This is, strictly speaking, a huge clinker not unlike what comes out of a grate—hard, glassy in spots, and scraggy all over. The Land of Thor
As far as possible a balance of pressure in the cells during clinkering should be maintained just sufficient to prevent an inrush of cold air through the flues. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter"
It’s just as if the giants of old had made a furnace at the top of the kopje, and had been pouring the red-hot clinkers down the side.” The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War
Perim, which has been described as "a gigantic blistered clinker," was reached and passed on October 31st, and from the ship the Prince got his first view of Her Majesty's Indian troops. The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V
The partiality of the struthians for eccentric refreshments—clinkers, nut-crackers, and the like—leads many to a superstition that these things are as nourishing as they are attractive. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
Several British convoys fell into our hands, but the food we found on them consisted usually of bully-beef and "clinkers," things which only dire necessity drove us Boers to eat. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
Stettin cement is a Portland cement made by grinding a clinker which has been "impregnated" with substances which impart waterproofing properties to the ground product. Concrete Construction Methods and Costs
Southerly Buster was a clinker over the distance, holding the Australian record for a mile, a generous horse, always willing to do his best. The Rider in Khaki A Novel
They had opened up the fires, drawn the clinkers from the furnaces, and were now oiling the engine. Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi
The stone fuses sufficiently to form a sort of clinker. Diggers in the Earth
All the Deal boats, the lifeboats of course excepted, are clinker built and of yellow colour, the natural elm being only varnished. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands
They, the clinker canoes, are easily tightened when they spring a leak through being rattled over stones in rapids. Woodcraft
You mix clinkers, wampum and spelf in equal quantities and condense the compound by hydraulic pressure. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916
It is said that clinkers fell, in your street, at about ten minutes past four o'clock, afternoon of July fifth. The Book of the Damned
Some of them, unequally expanded, strained and twisted; its grate-bars and fire-box had become choked with “clinkers,” and its tubes charged with coke. The Iron Horse
Up went the bottom of the pot higher still, and out came a little rush of glowing charcoal, and directly after a bit of heavy clinker, and that was all. Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
And I prefer the clinker, because it is the strongest, simplest, most enduring and most easily repaired in case of accident. Woodcraft
The Doctor paid him a certain rent for the right of the boys going down to this place, where a great dam had been built up of clay and clinkers. Burr Junior
But after all, ambiguous things they are, cinders or ashes or slag or clinkers, the high priest of the accursed that must speak aloud for us is—coal that has fallen from the sky. The Book of the Damned
One bright May morning found me busily turning over stones, clinkers, and old tree-roots in a fernery, which, having been long undisturbed, seemed a likely spot for the nest I wished to find. Wild Nature Won By Kindness
These protein ashes and clinkers are further acted upon—split up and sifted—by the liver, and are finally eliminated by the kidneys in the form of urea, uric acid, etc. The Mother and Her Child
I set the General breaking up boxes and had the Bishop rake out the clinkers, and very soon we had the furnace going and the boiler in operation. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels
You will think, perhaps, that it was easy enough to get clay, and so it was, for a thick bed lay only a few yards from the stream; but what about the clinkers? Burr Junior
And38 six weeks later he'd carelessly rested a red hot clinker rake on his right foot and had seared off a couple of toes. Torchy As A Pa
Do not allow clinkers to form on side or bridge walls. Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing
Dutch clinkers are small, hard paving bricks burned at a high temperature and of a light yellow colour; they are 6 in. long, 3 in. wide, 1� in. thick. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
On the other side stretched a piece of waste land, where iron clinkers and slag lay in great heaps, and rubbish of all kinds was deposited. Dick Lionheart
This layer was in places a foot thick and frequently burned to a brick red or even to clinkers. Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76
They bound o’er the fearful path of clinkers. Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends
Put that together with the lump o' clinkers as flew out o' the fire last week and split in two in the middle of the kitchen, an' there ye 'ave it all writ plain. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
Thoroughly burnt clay or ballast, old bricks, clinkers and cinders, ground to a uniform size and screened from dust, also make excellent substitutes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
"Ain't he a little clinker?" said Monkey Brand in hushed voice. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs
In any event, provided the fire is free from clinkers, we have a standard remedy. If You're Going to Live in the Country
Possibly the grates would become clogged up with green coal—an excellent opportunity for forming clinkers. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads
And then the peculiar nature of the jagged coral rock, like endless wastes of clinker, almost denuded of earth, would make the task the more arduous. Pieces of Eight
A man can fork Hades up from its bottom-most clinkers only once in so often. Destiny
It has a heavy percentage of human "clinkers," sometimes in the front pews, sometimes in the pulpit. The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder
Nothing but vast beds of glistering lava, now rough like immense piles of scoriae and clinker, now smooth like crystal mirrors, and reflecting the Sun's rays with the same intolerable glare. All Around the Moon
A. The rake should be used on the fire very seldom, because raking the fire bed tends to form clinkers, especially when the rake is plunged down through the fire to the grate. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads
The time occupied in loading, burning, and drawing a kiln of 30 tons of clinker averages about seven days. Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887
A small clinker, thrown into the cloth, weighed its middle down, thereby straining all moisture into a calabash placed below. The Piazza Tales
In that case, they can simply be shoveled out into the extra coal-hod, all pieces of clinker picked out, and a little water sprinkled on them. The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes
No fireman has to keep shoveling coal, there are no ashes to be dragged out from under the furnace grates, and there are no clinkers to clog up the bars. Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892
Q. How is the fire affected by and what causes clinkers? The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads
The church, for instance, is built of fragments of clinker, gathered from stove and grate, and held firmly together by cement. The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal
Some relics of the hut of Oberlus partially remain to this day at the head of the clinkered valley. The Piazza Tales
The fire, broiler door, clinker door, and ash-pan door are all in front. The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 10, October 1895. French Farmhouses.
He rode with Bijou, and reported to Mr. Heathcote that she was "a clinker at her fences, and went at them as straight as an English girl." Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885
A. A clinker shuts off area of grate surface according to its size, and thereby shutting off that much of the air supply and interfering with proper combustion. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads
It ought to be a clinker; it was the best of the lot——" "I d'no did they draw for it yet. Mount Music
P.S.—Behind the clinkers, nigh the oven, you will find the old fowl. The Piazza Tales
The sloop was a pretty craft, clinker built, and about the fastest sailing boat within miles of Cardhaven. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper
I'd have used ashes; old clinkers I guess would be best. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
Carrying the fire too heavy in some places, causes clinkers to form. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads
The brick were of several styles and colors, from the classic roman dry-press brick to the rough rock-face clinker which forms the base course of the structure. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
This precious document had been found pinned half-mildewed to the clinker wall of the sulphurous and deserted hut. The Piazza Tales
JIM takes clinker and turns it carefully over in his hand. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: in Mizzoura
"Question number three: what is the object of mixing sand or coal ashes or clinkers with clay." The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
A. The grates may have become clogged with ashes or clinkers so that sufficient air could not pass through them to the fire. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads
In some places about the approaches to the factory cartloads of clinker and cinders have been dumped, and some of it continues to burn like pyres, throwing off dark flames and darker curtains. Light
A penitential bird, indeed, fitly haunting the shores of the clinkered Encantadas, whereon tormented Job himself might have well sat down and scraped himself with potsherds. The Piazza Tales
Sometimes the clinkers accumulate and stop the draft, both in the human as well as the iron stove. Dorian
Then put in six inches of stone or clinker. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.
A. For the purpose of breaking any clinkers that might form and to shake out all refuse from the grates. The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads
The coal had been used by a trapper there, and is a good burner and heater, leaving little ash or clinker. Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899
Brooding among the ruins of his hut, and the desolate clinkers and extinct volcanoes of this outcast isle, the insulted misanthrope now meditates a signal revenge upon humanity, but conceals his purposes. The Piazza Tales
The unreserve of Ill was there,   The clinkers in her last retreat; But, ere the eye could take it in, Or mind could comprehension win,   It sunk!—and at our feet. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
On the other hand, Christina was undoubtedly a 'clinker' in her way, and Willie could do with more hospitality like hers. Wee Macgreegor Enlists
The labor connected with the feeding of furnaces with coke and cleaning fires from clinker is of a very arduous and heavy nature. Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887
Besides this, the patent fuel does not clinker the tube ends—a matter of vital importance. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
He strained his ears for sounds of the living world—the spit of the fire, the fall of clinkers in the grate, the whisper of the wind stirring at the door. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
There are also small bricks called clinkers, chiefly used for stable paving. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887
There may be some clinkers Now "creeping" to light, Tremendous deep thinkers Or high in their flight; There may be diffusers Of air that is hot; There may be a Bergson, Again there may not. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917
The red-hot rage of the afternoon and the white-hot rage of the evening had choked the furnace of brain and soul with clinkers so that he was thinking unevenly and disconnectedly. Cheerful—By Request
When you find that you have this kind of coal you will want to look after these clinkers. Rough and Tumble Engineering
It is a wonderfully sporting one; and last season these hounds never had a bad Saturday, and often a 'clinker' resulted. A Cotswold Village
Dutch clinkers, formerly imported largely from Holland, were small, rough bricks, laid on edge, and affording a good foothold for the horse. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887
The nursery was dingy, because it was a basement room, and its windows looked out on a stone area with a rockery made of clinkers facing the windows. The Phoenix and the Carpet
Thus the quantity of good clinker obtainable was unfavorably affected. Edison, His Life and Inventions
Electricity or the sun's own rays, concentrated for heating purposes, will do the work without any digging in mines by men, or delving in ashes and clinkers by women. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
Perhaps there will not be more than half a dozen "clinkers" in a season with a "two-day-a-week" pack. A Cotswold Village
Adamantine clinkers, made of gault clay, are much used; they must have chamfered edges, otherwise they make too smooth a floor for a stable. Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887
Go you to your sloop, clinker built, eighty tons burthen - you see I remember, Skipper Kit! Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson
When it arrives at the lower end, the material has been "burned," and the clinker drops out into a receiving chamber below. Edison, His Life and Inventions
This lava bed resembled a tremendously magnified clinker. Desert Gold
Then suddenly he noticed with a start that some of the grey clinker, the ashy incrustation that covered the meteorite, was falling off the circular edge of the end. The War of the Worlds
Outside, underneath their window, they heard the sound of hurried footsteps crushing into the clinkers by the side of the ties. The Octopus : A story of California
I've enough to set me up and buy a tidy sloop - Jack Lee's; you know the boat, Captain; clinker built, not four years old, eighty tons burthen, steers like a child. Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson
After cooling, the clinker is ground into very fine powder, which is the Portland cement of commerce. Edison, His Life and Inventions
They generally form during the burning of an extremely hot fire, but the usual temperature of a kitchen fire does not produce clinkers unless the coal is of a very poor quality. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads
Brigadier who had private instructions to knock clinkers out of 'em. Traffics and Discoveries
The black blood, winking in the starlight, seeped down into the clinkers between the ties with a prolonged sucking murmur. The Octopus : A story of California
Go ahead, you old clinker built villain," said he, "and show the gentleman how wonderful handSUM you can travel. The Clockmaker Or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
This combustion effects a chemical decomposition of the chalk, and causes it to assume a plastic consistency and to collect together in the form of small spherical balls, which are known as "clinker." Edison, His Life and Inventions
Mixed with poor coal are certain unburnable materials that melt and stick together as it burns and form what are known as clinkers. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads
Dempster, however, was not yet a clinker out of which all the life was burned, however much he looked like one. Stephen Archer and Other Tales
By means of these openings any clinker that may form and the ashes of the spent fuel can readily be withdrawn. Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883
A supply of water is necessary, a good deal being required for cooling the clinkers. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
It is self-evident that an ideal kiln would be one that produced the maximum quantity of thoroughly clinkered material with a minimum amount of fuel, labor, and investment. Edison, His Life and Inventions
Twice it climbed stealthily up the broken bricks and gas clinkers. The Far Horizon
It does exactly the same for a human being, burns him out and fills him with clinkers. Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency
And there's no doubt she's a clinker; quiet, you know, and steady; looks right at you, far in; sees the lot at a glance. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution
Between the destructor and the chimney a multitubular boiler is placed, which makes steam enough for grinding into sand the clinkers which are the solid residue of the burnt refuse. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
This ground material passes through kilns and comes out in "clinker." Edison, His Life and Inventions
But the pillar broke and the basin toppled over, pinning it, across the loins, down on to the clinkers under the edge of the stone lip. The Far Horizon
Lucretius & Peocalus, Dealers in choice family flour, cut feed and oatmeal with or without clinkers in it. Remarks
The clinkers and ashes left after the combustion of the coal, are precipitated into the ash-pit, where the chain turns down over the roller at the extremity of the furnace. A Catechism of the Steam Engine
A six-celled destructor kiln burns about 42 tons of refuse in twenty-four hours, leaving about one-fourth of its bulk of clinkers and ashes. Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
The fine grinding of cement clinker is distinctively Edisonian in both origin and application. Edison, His Life and Inventions
I should cut a fine figure, metaphorically, if not arithmetically speaking; whereas my farthing rush-light is now sputtering, clinkering, and guttering to waste, and all because I have not a pair of silver snuffers. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859
And it came to pass when his time was up And hell's gates were opened wide That all hell rang, and the clinkered imps sang When the Devil passed Outside. Rhymes of a Roughneck
Oh, just for a ride; been trying the new horse: he's a clinker! At Love's Cost
The clinkered hills, quivering in the west, sank gradually into the heated blur above the plains. Dragon's blood
These coarse particles, or clinkers, absorb water very slowly, are practically inert, and have very feeble cementing properties. Edison, His Life and Inventions
Stars, forsooth!—and, pray, what paltry sun, what irresponsible comet, what pallid, clinkered satellite, might boast a purple splendor such as this? The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations
This area of tufa cones, dark and grey basalt, clinkers, scoriæ, fine ash, and ferruginous basalt, is something gigantic.  The Hawaiian Archipelago
And Susan attacked the little kitchen stove with a vigor that would have brought terror to the clinkers of a furnace fire pot. Dawn
Go ahead, you old clinker built villain, said he, and show the gentleman how wonderful handSUM you can travel. The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville
This is ground and that part of this finely ground clinker that will pass a 200-mesh screen is cement; the residue is still clinker. Edison, His Life and Inventions
A place in the Borough of Southwark, formerly   privileged from arrests; and inhabited by lawless vagabonds   of every denomination, called, from the place of   their residence, clinkers. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
It rose clear to the ceiling and threw off sparks and red clinkers. Europe Revised
The large, open fireplace is built of clinker brick, and its facings extend from the floor to the ceiling; it has a wooden shelf supported on corbeled brackets. Three Acres and Liberty
Outside the car window, slipping steadily by, were smoke-stained brick factories, and little canals and backwaters soiled with oil and soot, and heaps of slag and scrap iron and clinkers. Martie, the Unconquered
These kilns were usually made of boiler iron, riveted, and were about sixty feet long and six feet in diameter, and had a capacity of about two hundred barrels of cement clinker in twenty-four hours. Edison, His Life and Inventions
This layer was often a foot thick, and frequently burned to a brick-red or even to clinkers. The Problem of the Ohio Mounds
The garden walk was strewn with loose clinkers from the neighbouring foundry, which rolled under the pedestrian's foot and jolted his soul out of him before he reached the porchless door. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day
I could hear him swearing approval and admiration, saying to himself— 'Ain't he a clinker! Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks
This wall of rock, which had no doubt once formed the lip of the crater, was about a mile and a half thick, and still covered with clinker. She
The living pulses died on Joshua’s face, which grew arid as a clinker Life's Little Ironies
For an hour the place was silent, except for the falling clinkers from the grate, the rustling of book-leaves, and the plumping of rain on the windows, when the wind shifted a point. Greyfriars Bobby
Berry goes gallantly in, and delivers a clinker on the gown-boy's jaw. Men's Wives
Coketown was nothing more than a ragged hillside dotted with a score of black dismal huts propped up against dreary mounds of slag and clinkers. Options
Lavas present a general resemblance to the slags and clinkers which are formed in our furnaces and brick-kilns, and consist, like them, of various stony substances which have been more or less perfectly fused. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire
Bless my flues and clinkers!" cried Mr. Damon, "you are not losing hope, Tom Swift? Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, or, Two Miles a Minute on the Rails
He was a cinder, a bit of a clinker of a man, a little animated clinker, not yet quite cold, that moved stiffly and by starts and jerks like an automaton. South Sea Tales
By George! how fond I am of a good horse—a real well-bred clinker. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields
She was in the sharpest contrast with the industrial world about her; she impressed me as a dainty blue flower might do, come upon suddenly on a clinker heap. The New Machiavelli
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