Bort

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Poorly crystallized diamonds used for industrial cutting and abrasion.
  • n. A carbonado.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Poor quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A collective name for diamonds of inferior quality, especially such as have a radiating crystallization, so that they will not take a polish.
  • n. An amorphous variety of diamond, brown, gray, or black in color, and known also as black diamond or carbonado, found massive in Brazil in association with pure diamonds.
  • Word Usage
    "The black diamonds, called bort, are used mainly for arming diamond drills and for polishing other diamonds."
    Cross Reference
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    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Court    Dort    Mort    Porte    Stuart    abort    assort    athwart    boart    cavort   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fraa    claire    foglamp    compte    burt    sigler    satte    l'ajout    hundre    busk