clunch

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His reassuringly expensive £25,000 shed has a wood-burning stove, dimmer switches, sofa bed, sheep’s wool insulation and is painted in muted shades called clunch, mouse’s back and old white.

From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2017

The whole, however, is of clunch, and, unfortunately, incomplete.

From Hertfordshire by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)

The Sweet Applers, according to Mrs. Nicholls, were "that clunch they might have been brought up in a wood."

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary

You see th' bed's soft, it's a sort o' clay-bind, it's not clunch such as you get deeper.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Smith adopted for the most part English provincial terms, often of barbarous sound, such as gault, cornbrash, clunch clay; and affixed them to subdivisions of the British series.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir