bort
Example Sentences
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“When my father said daay bort, pronouncing the word ‘deport’ by breaking it into syllables that creaked like a door opening and shutting,” she writes, “I felt its decree.”
From New York Times ● May 14, 2023
It is tempting to wonder whether some curious misprints – "luther" for either; "bort" for both – constitute a sly joke about our own language-processing abilities.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2010
For rock-boring the diamond rock-drill, an instrument with cutting edges made of bort or black diamond, is now generally adopted.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
In trade, the term bort is extended to all small and impure diamonds, and crystalline fragments of diamond, useless as gem-stones.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
The Writing Diamond.—This is the name given to a small irregular fragment of "bort" which is usually mounted in a thin brass rod.
From A Handbook of Laboratory Glass-Blowing by Bernard D. Bolas
