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

The vaulted niches are of clunch, but the rest of the shrine is of Purbeck marble.

From Hertfordshire by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)

I gathered pieces of clunch converted partially into alum at a colliery near Bilston, where the ground was still on fire a few years ago.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus

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

There is much clunch stone used in the interior and this is in a good state of preservation, but any that has been used externally has decayed.

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.