Clinkant

See CLINQUANT. Clink'er, n. ( Min. ) Black oxide of iron, obtained in scales from red-hot iron while in proce of forging. In common parlance, the term is applied to the slaggy ferruginous ma es that form in furnaces and stoves from the vitrification of the silica and iron contained in the coal. See BRICK. -pl. ( Brick - making .) A term used for bricks, which by the violence of the heat are run together and glazed over. Hard bricks, as made in Holland, are thus called. Clink'er-bar, n. ( Mach . ) The bar fixed acro the ash-pit of a steam-engine, for supporting the rods used for clewing the fire-bars.