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

The employment of powdered bort and the lapidary’s wheel for faceting diamonds was introduced by L. von Berquen of Bruges in 1476.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" 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 Bolas, Bernard D.

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