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

Right in the clunch you'll find their nest, and as many as ten young 'uns in'n....

From Change in the Village by Sturt, George

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)

The abaci of the Early English capitals in the main arcade are of Barnack stone, which is harder than clunch and so more suitable for bearing a weight.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey by Perkins, Thomas, Rev.

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