Definitions for clunch
clunch

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. clunchnoun

   hardened clay

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. clunchnoun

   A traditional building material mostly made of chalk or clay.

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1. Clunch

   Clunch is a traditional building material of chalky limestone rock used mainly in eastern England and Normandy. Clunch distinguishes itself from archetypal forms of limestone by being softer in character when cut, such as resembling chalk in lower density, or with minor clay-like components.

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1. clunch

   Clunch is a traditional building material that primarily used in south east England. It is a type of hard, compact chalk or limestone that is typically light-colored. It is often used in constructions, notably for churches and other large structures.

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1. Clunchnoun

   indurated clay. See Bind, n., 3

2. Clunchnoun

   one of the hard beds of the lower chalk

3. Etymology: [Perh. fr. clinch to make fast]

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1. Clunch

   Clunch is traditional building material used mainly in eastern England and Normandy. It encompasses a wide variety of materials such as irregular lumps of rock either picked up from the fields, or quarried and hewn from the ground in more regular-shaped building blocks. It is predominantly chalk/clay based and is bedded in mortar to form walls. It is a particularly soft building material. It can be cut by a saw when in its softer state this is when it has been quarried out of the ground because it contains a large amount of water. When the stone drys out it becomes harder and not as easy to cut. The stone is a chalk from the Lower Chalk of the Cretaceous age, the period of geological time approximately 143-65 million years ago. It is a greyish white colour often with a greenish tinge. The latter is due to the presence of glauconite, the potassium and iron aluminium silicate mineral also found in Kentish Ragstone. The stone has a gritty texture due to the frequent presence of shell fossils. This stone is quarried at Totternhoe Quarry in Dunstable by H.G. Clarke & Son since 1920. It is often a very soft limestone. It can be rich in iron-bearing clays or be very fine and white — in effect just chalk. It is used in various parts of East Anglia, where more durable stone is uncommon, and can be seen quite a lot in and around Thetford — mostly now for property boundary walls as it is not a long-lasting material, but it is also used for some building walls, especially in traditional agricultural buildings. In Ely Cathedral it can be seen in some interior locations. The nearby village of Burwell has a Parish magazine named after the building material. It is found in the village of Seale in Surrey and in Farnham.

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1. Clunch

   klunsh, n. the miner's name for tough indurated clay, sometimes found in the coal-measures. [Ety. dub.; prob. related to Clump.]

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of clunch in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

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   The numerical value of clunch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=clunch
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Clunch
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clunch
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clunch
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=clunch
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=clunch