| 释义 |
clunch /klʌn(t)ʃ /noun [mass noun] BritishSoft limestone capable of being easily worked: they used clunch for most domestic building [as modifier]: sections of clunch wall in the stable...- The original walls were clunch and were pilfered by a bastard son of Henry the Eighth to build Berkhamsted Place.
- As it's a large square Norman keep and it's still in good condition, clunch can be a very hard stone and weather well.
- There are useful resources within the parish: flints for tool making and building, a band of hard chalk called clunch also for building, and areas of woodland and gravel.
Origin Early 19th century: perhaps from dialect clunch 'lumpy, thickset'. |