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 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 Darwin, Erasmus
Right in the clunch you'll find their nest, and as many as ten young 'uns in'n....
From Change in the Village by Sturt, George
No wonder the Sweet Apple folk were "clunch"!
From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary
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