clinker vs muck

clinker

noun
  • fetters. 

  • Someone or something that clinks. 

  • A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging. 

  • Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling. 

  • A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands. 

  • An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln. 

  • Hardened volcanic lava. 

  • A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks. 

  • A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat. 

verb
  • To convert or be converted into clinker. 

muck

noun
  • Semen. 

  • Heroin. 

  • Soft (or slimy) manure. 

  • The pile of discarded cards. 

  • Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. 

  • Grub, slop, swill 

  • Slimy mud, sludge. 

verb
  • To manure with muck. 

  • To shovel muck. 

  • To vomit. 

  • To do a dirty job. 

  • To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed. 

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