Home › Words › C › clunchclunchclunch means A traditional building material mostly made of chalk or clay.EtymologyPerhaps related to clump. Compare hump, hunch; lump, lunch, etc.nounA traditional building material mostly made of chalk or clay.e.g.“clunch pit”verbTo grasp firmly; clench.e.g.“As William Wallace felt the bank giving away under his feet, he clunched the other boy firmly by the arm.” — 1920, Nephi Anderson, The Boys of Springtown, page 15:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.brickclay 69% match — A clay used in making bricks. vs clunch →clom 68% match — A mixture of earth, straw, etc. used in traditional Welsh construction. vs clunch →chalkland 65% match — Land in which the underlying geology is chalk. vs clunch →wychert 64% match — A natural blend of white chalk and clay, traditionally mixed with straw and used to build walls. vs clunch →cloam 64% match — Clay. vs clunch →clinker 63% match — A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands. vs clunch →chalkstone 62% match — A mass or piece of chalk. vs clunch →klompie 62% match — A small, hard clay brick. vs clunch →