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carbonado

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as bort, 2.
  • Same as carbonade.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil.
  • transitive verb obsolete To cut or hack, as in fighting.
  • noun (Min.) A black variety of diamond, found in Brazil, and used for diamond drills. It occurs in irregular or rounded fragments, rarely distinctly crystallized, with a texture varying from compact to porous.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A black diamond used in drilling.
  • noun Meat or fish that has been scored and broiled.
  • verb transitive To cut and cook something in this manner.
  • verb obsolete, transitive To cut or hack, as in combat.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled
  • noun an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing

Etymologies

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Portuguese carbonado, carbonated

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Spanish carbonada, from carbón, charcoal

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Examples

  • Also known as carbonado, the black diamond is the oldest, toughest and rarest diamond found only in Brazil and Africa.

    WebWire | Recent Headlines 2009

  • We handed in our second 3000 word essay On carbonado diamonds in my case pretty much on the last day of term.

    Snell-Pym » Stress 2009

  • The new data support earlier research by Haggerty showing that carbonado diamonds formed in stellar supernovae explosions.

    January 9th, 2007 2007

  • If he do come in my way, so: if he do not, if I come in his willingly, let him make a carbonado of me.

    The first part of King Henry the Fourth 2004

  • No man in England durst say so much — I would flay him, carbonado him!

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • He had added only a black cape that sparkled like carbonado and a tall bunch of black feathers fastened behind the cockade of his broad brimmed hat.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • They took only a few of the rubies and sapphires the next morning but they gathered more of the diamonds, looking in particular for the gray-black and ugly but very hard and tough carbonado variety.

    Space Prison Tom Godwin 1947

  • Draw, you rogue, or I’ll so carbonado your shanks: draw, you rascal; come your ways.

    Act II. Scene II. King Lear 1914

  • He was too hard for him, —directly to say the truth on ’t: before Corioli he scotched him and notched him like a carbonado.

    Act IV. Scene V. Coriolanus 1914

  • If he do come in my way, so: if he do not, if I come in his, willingly, let him make a carbonado of me.

    Act V. Scene III. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914

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equivalents (1)

Other words for 'carbonado'

  1. carbonade

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. adamant
  2. diamond
  3. meat

variants (1)

Variants

  1. carbonadoes

forms (3)

Forms

  1. carbonadoed
  2. carbonadoing
  3. carbonados

cross-references (1)

Cross-references

  1. carbonade

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  • bilby commented on the word carbonado

    "FIRST SERVANT: He was too hard for him directly, to say the truth on't; before Corioli he scotched him and notched him like a carbonado."

    - William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.

    August 29, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi commented on the word carbonado

    "Draw, you rogue, or I'll so carbonado your shanks."

    Kent, King Lear II.ii

    September 11, 2009