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Charcoal

noun

1.

A carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air. Synonym: wood coal.

2.

A stick of black carbon material used for drawing. Synonym: fusain.

3.

A very dark grey color. Synonyms: charcoal gray, charcoal grey, oxford gray, oxford grey.

4.

A drawing made with a stick of black carbon material.

verb

1.

Draw, trace, or represent with charcoal.

adjective

1.

Of a very dark grey. Synonyms: charcoal-gray, charcoal-grey.

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"Charcoal" Quotes from Famous Books

... or two later the castle was swarming with workmen; the banging of hammers, the rasp of saws, the spattering of mortar, the crashing of stone and the fumes of charcoal crucibles extended to the remotest recesses; the tower of Babel was being reconstructed in the language of six or eight nations, and everybody was happy. I had no idea there were so many tinsmiths in the world. Every artisan in the town across the river seems to have felt it his duty to come ...

— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon

... the sand. Articles made of horn, bones of animals, especially the reindeer, notched or cut pieces of wood have been found. Also there are evidences of rude drawings on stone, bone, or ivory; fragments of charcoal, which give {76} evidence of the use of fire in cooking or creating artificial heat, are found, and long bones split longitudinally to obtain marrow for food, and, finally, the remnants of pottery. These represent the principal relics found in the Stone Age; to these may be added ...

— History of Human Society • Frank W. Blackmar

... pieces of crania, belonging to different individuals. The piece of pottery only measured one and a half by two and a quarter inches; the clay is gray and friable, bound together with big bits of quartz, mica, and a few particles of charcoal." There would appear to be no sufficient reason to question the exactness of a discovery so ...

— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac

... of Cavaliere Bandinello's father, who was called Michel Agnolo, a goldsmith from Pinzi di Monte, and a master excellent in that craft. [1] He had no distinction of birth whatever, but was the son of a charcoal-seller. This is no blame to Bandinello, who has founded the honour of the family-if only he had done so honestly! However that may be, I have no cause now to talk about him. After I had stayed there some days, my father took me away from Michel Agnolo, finding himself unable ...

— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini

... of it was that I saw the steel lifted out of the furnace in crucibles and poured forth like golden-silver water into charcoal moulds, but I did not speak ...

— Patience Wins - War in the Works • George Manville Fenn

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