clunch
Example Sentences
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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
The vaulted niches are of clunch, but the rest of the shrine is of Purbeck marble.
From Hertfordshire by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)
The exterior is mostly flint; the interior, like that of so many churches in Cambridgeshire, is of "clunch," a hardened form of chalk, well adapted for building, and easily worked for carving.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
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)
