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Definition of Boart
1. bort [n -S] - See also: bort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boart
Literary usage of Boart
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Analytical Digest of All the Reported Cases Determined in the House of by Samuel Bealey Harrison, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain Court of Bankruptcy (1835)
"A party to whom two sums are due, the one for spirituous liquors supplied in
quantities no »mounting to 20s. at a time, the other for boart and lodging-, ..."
2. Modern Inorganic Chemistry by Joseph William Mellor (1912)
"They exhibit a more or less imperfect crystalline structure, and are known as
black diamond*— boart or bort, and carbonado. ..."
3. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Sir Henry A Miers, Henry A[lexander] Miers (1902)
"boart is a semi-crystalline translucent substance, generally rather dark in
colour, and with a curved drusy surface ; sometimes a single stone consists of ..."
4. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State library, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania State Library (1907)
"The Qr. Mr, & Comm'y & Commis'y of Military Stores will put as many of there
respective stores on boart the Boates as the ..."
5. Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil: With a Full Account of the Gold by Richard Francis Burton (1869)
"When " boart" is of large size it is generally broken to find if it be full or
hollow. It is known by the great weight, by its diamond-like coldness in the ..."
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