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

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

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

An' I says, 'Tha'd better stan' on a bit o' clunch, then, an' hold it up wi' thy 'ead.'

From Sons and Lovers by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary