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clunch
noun as in clay
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Example Sentences
The Sweet Applers, according to Mrs. Nicholls, were "that clunch they might have been brought up in a wood."
Clunch is found in many places throughout the county and has been worked (as existing remains show) ever since Roman days.
Here, too, there is a "clunch-pit" in the hill-side, from which the material for the church was probably dug.
It is built of clunch, a local stone that lasts well for interior use, but perishes somewhat when exposed to the weather.
I found a favourite place, an old clunch-quarry, on the side of a hill, where the white road comes sleepily up out of the fen.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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