Bort Definition

bôrt
noun
A flawed diamond used only for industrial purposes, esp. in crushed form for grinding and polishing.
Webster's New World
A carbonado.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Bort

Noun

Singular:
bort
Plural:
borts

Origin of Bort

  • Probably from Dutch boort

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Bort Sentence Examples

  • Bort (or Boart) is the name given to impure crystals or fragments useless for jewels; it is also applied to the rounded crystalline aggregates, which generally have a grey colour, a rough surface, often a radial structure, and are devoid of good cleavage.

  • They are sometimes spherical (" shot bort ").

  • Both bort and carbonado seem to be really aggregates of crystallized diamond, but the carbonado is so nearly structureless that it was till recently regarded as an amorphous modification of carbon.

  • For rock drills, and revolving saws for stone cutting, either diamond, bort or carbonado is employed, set in steel tubes, disks or bands.

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Words Starting With

BBOBOR

Words Ending With

TRTORT

Unscrambles

bort

Words Starting With B and Ending With T

Starts With B & Ends With TStarts With BO & Ends With TStarts With B & Ends With RT

Word Length

4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With B4 Letter Words Ending With T