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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A usually hollow building block made with concrete and coal cinders.
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- noun A
lightweight building block made fromcinders andconcrete .
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- noun a light concrete building block made with cinder aggregate
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Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
noun
Date: 1926
: a hollow rectangular building block made of cement and coal cinders
February 22, 2008