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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Poorly crystallized diamonds used for industrial cutting and abrasion.
  2. n. A carbonado.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A collective name for diamonds of inferior quality, especially such as have a radiating crystallization, so that they will not take a polish. These are crushed to form diamond-powder or diamond-dust, which is used for cutting and polishing diamonds and other precious stones.
  2. 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. This is extensively used as the cutting material in diamond drills and stone-saws, for which ordinary diamonds are unsuited from their crumbling and cleaving.

Wiktionary

  1. n. uncountable Poor quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

Etymologies

  1. Probably from Dutch boort. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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rhymes (45)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Court
  2. Dort
  3. Mort
  4. Porte
  5. Stuart
  6. abort
  7. assort
  8. athwart
  9. boart
  1. cavort
  2. comport
  3. consort
  4. contort
  5. cort
  6. court
  7. deport
  8. distort
  9. escort
  1. exhort
  2. extort
  3. foret
  4. fort
  5. forte
  6. import
  7. misreport
  8. mort
  9. ort
  1. port
  2. purport
  3. quart
  4. report
  5. resort
  6. short
  7. snort
  8. sort
  9. sport
  1. support
  2. swart
  3. teleport
  4. thwart
  5. tort
  6. torte
  7. transport
  8. underreport
  9. wart

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. boort
  1. boart
  1. carbonado
  1. carbonate
  1. drill

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  • Prolagus Mmm... pasta alla carbonara... *drooling* Jul 9, 2008

  • dontcry Here's bort in yur eye! Arrrrgh! Jul 9, 2008

  • dontcry 2. A carbonado. (American Heritage): Hey, is that the Italian bacon and eggs pasta dish? I love that!

    Ooops! Wrong list...
    Jul 9, 2008

  • sionnach For some reason, it sticks in my mind that the standard drinking toast in Iceland is something like "scowly bort".

    Perhaps one of our freshly minted Wordie Icelandic experts might be able to enlighten us further? Jul 9, 2008

  • reesetee I may adapt the term crushing bort to refer to a few particularly yawn-inducing acquaintances. Jul 9, 2008

  • plethora I thought it was a joke from the Simpsons. Jul 9, 2008

  • bilby Noobly-noot, bort bort! Jul 9, 2008

  • chained_bear And here I thought "bort" was just a common Swedish chef ejaculation. Jul 9, 2008

  • sionnach Low-quality diamond, in granular aggregate or small fragments, valuable only in crushed or powdered form, esp. for industrial use as an abrasive. (dictionary.com)

    1. Poorly crystallized diamonds used for industrial cutting and abrasion.
    2. A carbonado. (American Heritage)

    Bort or boart is a term used in the diamond industry to refer to shards of gem-grade/quality diamonds. In the manufacturing and heavy industries, "bort" is used to describe dark, imperfectly formed/crystallized diamonds of varying levels of opacity. The lowest grade, "crushing bort", is crushed by steel mortars and used to make industrial-grade abrasive grits. Small bort crystals are used in drill bits. The Democratic Republic of the Congo provides 75% of the world supply of crushing bort. (Wikipedia)

    Jul 9, 2008

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