▪ I. † carboˈnado, n.1 Obs.
Also 7 carbinado, charbonado.
[ad. Sp. carbonada ‘a Carbonado on the coles’ (Minsheu) = It. carbonata, F. carbonade (Cotgrave); see -ado.]
A piece of fish, flesh, or fowl, scored across and grilled or broiled upon the coals. Often transf.
| 1586 Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. iv. iv. 47, I will make thee slice the brawns of thy arms into carbonadoes and eat them. 1591 Lyly Sapho ii. iii. 175 If I venture..to eate a rasher on the coales, a carbonado. 1607 Shakes. Cor. iv. v. 199 He scotcht him, and notcht him like a carbinado. 1651 Markham Eng. Housw. 70 Charbonadoes. 1656 Heylin Surv. France 72 A suit of Turkie grogram..cut with long slashes or carbonado's. 1656 H. More Antid. Ath. iii. iii. They made goodly Carbonado's of Witches. 1687 B. Randolph Archipel. 19 His Buttocks were like unto Carbonados. |
▪ II. carbonado, n.2
(kɑːbɒˈneɪdəʊ)
[Pg.]
A dark, opaque variety of diamond, found near Bahia in Brazil, used in rock-drilling and stone-polishing.
| 1853 J. Tennant Gems & Prec. Stones 94 A considerable quantity of a black substance was found, of specific gravity like the Diamond, but lamellar... It was termed ‘Carbonado’ by the discoverers from its charcoal like appearance. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 345/1 The dressing and grooving of mill⁓stones is generally done by hand-picking, but sometimes black amorphous diamonds (carbonado) are used. 1951 J. R. Partington Gen. & Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) xvii. 439 Black or dark-coloured..diamonds, carbonado and bort (or boart), of no value as gems, are used for rock-drills. |
▪ III. carboˈnado, v. arch.
(kɑːbəʊˈneɪdəʊ)
[f. carbonado n.1]
1. trans. To make a carbonado of; to score across and broil or grill.
| 1611 Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 268 How she long'd to eate Adders heads, and Toads carbonado'd. c 1630 Jackson Creed iv. cvii. Wks. 1844 III. 105 Having..lastly his raw bulk broiled or carbonadoed quick. 1679 Hist. Jetzer 5 The colour of his face was as if it had been newly Carbanadoed, and laid upon a Gridiron. 1820 Scott Monast. xvi, On a level with Richard Cœur-de-Lion, when he ate up the head of a Moor carbonadoed. 1823 [see Carbonari]. |
| fig. 1647 Ward Simp. Cobler 62 Whose heart hath been long carbonado'd..in flames of affection towards you. 1672 R. Wild Poet. Licent. 27 Raw men you were, raw still you are, I Do scarce believe you'l carbonado'd die. |
b. quasi-intr. (from elliptic use of gerund).
| 1675 J. Smith Chr. Relig. App. ii. 7 His Arm not to shrug, while it was carbonadoing, with that live Coal that fell into his Sleeve. 1863 Thornbury True as Steel III. 2 While some venison stakes, dipped in wine and spiced, were carbonadoing at a fire. |
2. transf. To cut, slash, hack.
| 1596 Nashe Saffron Walden 20, I am the man will deliuer him to thee to be scotcht and carbonadoed. 1605 Shakes. Lear ii. ii. 41 Draw, you Rogue, or Ile so carbonado your shanks. 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. 259 Barbarous Gallants..slash and carbonado their Bodies. 1748 Smollett Rod. Rand. (1812) I. 58, I would flea him, carbonado him. 1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 166 He..has been..so cut up and carbonadoed that he is a kind of walking monument of the troubles of Spain. |
carboˈnadoed ppl. a., carboˈnadoing vbl. n.
| 1601 Shakes. All's Well iv. v. 107 Your carbinado'd face. 1615 Markham Eng. Housew. ii. ii. (1668) 78 The manner of carbonadoing. 1635 Quarles Embl. i. v. (1718) 21 To broil the carbonado'd hearts of men. 1655 W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. ii. 223 Satan's plundering him of his estate..carbonadoing (as I may say) his body with sores and boiles (which were as so many deep slashes in his flesh). |