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
The clunch probably from hence acquires its inflammable part, which on calcination becomes vitriolic acid.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
Right in the clunch you'll find their nest, and as many as ten young 'uns in'n....
From Change in the Village by George Sturt
The vaulted niches are of clunch, but the rest of the shrine is of Purbeck marble.
From Hertfordshire by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New
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 D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
