clinkers

Example Sentences

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Clinkers are very troublesome because they often adhere to the stove grate or the lining of the firebox.

From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

Clammer s.  a worn footpath up a steep bank Clinkers s.  hoof marks. 

From A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire by Williams, Wadham Pigott

He saw a pop-eyed Person in soiled Neglige, who made threatening movements toward something concealed in the White Clover, with a Weapon resembling the iron Dingus used in gouging the Clinkers from a Furnace.

From Ade's Fables by Ade, George

He saw a pop-eyed Person in soiled Négligé, who made threatening movements toward something concealed in the White Clover, with a Weapon resembling the iron Dingus used in gouging the Clinkers from a Furnace.

From Ade's Fables by McCutcheon, John T.

And every Tuesday they served Dried Currants with Clinkers in them.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney