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 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
The black diamonds, called bort, are used mainly for arming diamond drills and for polishing other diamonds.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Jewett Castello Gilson
The best plan is to procure a bit of "bort" which has been used in a diamond drill, and whose properties have therefore been tested to some extent.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
