tingladillo — meaning in English

English meaning

• clinker noun A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.

Senses

tingladillo is used for these senses in English:

• clinker (nautical, mostly, attributive) A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
• clinker-built (nautical) Of a boat or ship: having the hull constructed using planks or plates laid so that each plank overlaps the edge of the plank or plate below it, and in the case of plates, behind it; the planks were traditionally secured by nails which had been clenched (or clinched), that is, after being hammered through the planks the points of the nails were bent to make them unremovable.

clinker — full definition

1. noun A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
2. noun A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
3. noun Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
4. noun An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.