The soft white stone used for some of the interior decorations is called "clunch," and is found within a few miles of Ely; it is well adapted for the purposes to which it is applied, it is easily worked and capable of being highly finished, but will not bear exposure to the weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ely Cathedral] Reference

Chalk, marl, weald clay, iron sand, and Oxford clay or clunch clay 20.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832] Reference

Once the native bird starts to be broody after laying a clunch of 10-12 eggs, all its eggs are replaced with purebred hatching eggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 15] Reference

He gives a very interesting coloured section, showing these different strata, where the springs arise beneath the oolite; then the ferruginous gravels, the clunch clay, and the lias underlaying all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference

One only, manifestly the latest in date, and also in poorest preservation (being carved in clunch), has the mitre; this is now temporarily placed in the New Building; there is little doubt that it represents John Chambers, the last Abbot and first.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See] Reference

The hens become broody for a long period after laying a clunch of 10-12 eggs. (farmers control the broodiness of native hens by soaking them in cold water, removing the laid eggs from their nests, or even placing some slat or powdered pepper on their cloaca and also by providing better feeds).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 15] Reference

The length on each side, internally, is occupied by two large pointed arches, comprehending under each two tiers of subordinate ones, the upper tier of five and the lower of three, which contains both outer and inner arches of different heights, supported by very slender columns; all the shafts were originally of Purbeck marble, with elegant capitals; the ribs of the vaulting are of free-stone, but the vault is of clunch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ely Cathedral] Reference

The vaulted niches are of clunch, but the rest of the shrine is of Purbeck marble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hertfordshire] Reference

Right in the clunch you'll find their nest, and as many as ten young 'uns in'n.    From Wordnik.com.  [Change in the Village] Reference

What stone was used is clunch, from Tottenhoe in Bedfordshire, which, according to Lord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey] Reference

An 'I says,' Tba'd better stan 'on a bit o' clunch, then, an 'hold it up wi' thy 'ead.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sons and Lovers] Reference

An 'I says,' Tha'd better stan 'on a bit o' clunch, then, an 'hold it up wi' thy 'ead.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sons and Lovers] Reference

You see th 'bed's soft, it's a sort o' clay-bind, it's not clunch such as you get deeper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Girl] Reference

I found a favourite place, an old clunch-quarry, on the side of a hill, where the white road comes sleepily up out of the fen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silent Isle] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference

There is much clunch stone used in the interior and this is in a good state of preservation, but any that has been used externally has decayed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey] Reference

The abaci of the Early English capitals in the main arcade are of Barnack stone, which is harder than clunch and so more suitable for bearing a weight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey] Reference

A little wisp o 'grass somewhere in the clunch (fork) of a tree ... "(his glance wandered speculatively round in search of a likely place)" that's where they builds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Change in the Village] Reference

The three eastern windows of Abbot William of Trumpington's time were rebuilt in the old style; the five bays to the west of these were refaced with brick and flint, as the original clunch stone had perished, owing to exposure to the weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey] Reference

That's it though, 'pend upon it; right up in the clunch o' that bough. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Change in the Village] Reference

In Baldock S.reet there was nothing on the south side beyond Messrs. Phillips 'brewery, and on the north side nothing beyond the Fleet, then a private road-way to the lime kiln and clunch pit, in the occupation of Mr.S. Eversden, now forming the picturesque dell in the grounds of the Rookery (Mr. Henry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference

The whole, however, is of clunch, and, unfortunately, incomplete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hertfordshire] Reference