Word Direct Answers

What does "carbonado" mean?

Carbonado: To cut (meat) across for frying or broiling; to cut or slice and broil. [Obs.] A short-legged hen daintily carbonadoed. Bean. & Fl.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To cut or hack, as in fighting. [Obs.] I'll so carbonado your shanks. Shak.
  2. 3.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.

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