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Carbonado

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A piece of scored and broiled fish, fowl, or meat.

v. To score and broil (fish, fowl, or meat).

v. To slice or cut.

n. A form of opaque or dark-colored diamond used for drills. Also called black diamond.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Meat or fish that has been scored and broiled.

v. To cut and cook something in this manner.

v. To cut or hack, as in combat.

n. A black diamond used in drilling.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil.

v. To cut or hack, as in fighting.

n. 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.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Same as bort, 2.

Same as carbonade.

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

n. a piece of meat (or fish) that has been scored and broiled

n. an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing

Word Usage

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

Equivalent

carbonade

Verb Form

carbonadoed carbonadoing carbonados

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

meat diamond adamant

Cross Reference

carbonade

Variant

carbonadoes