Carburetant
any substance for carbureting air or a gas.
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a device for mixing vaporized fuel with air to produce a combustible or explosive mixture, as for an internal-combustion engine. Historical Examples In starting an engine, the petrol tap is turned on, and some of the spirit allowed to run into the carburettor. The Aeroplane Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper We just operate this geared […]
- Carburize
to cause to unite with carbon. to carburet. Historical Examples Bessemer’s next difficulty was to carburize his pure iron, and thus to make it into steel. Stories of Invention Edward E. Hale verb another word for carbonize (sense 2), carbonize (sense 3) (transitive) to increase the carbon content of (the surface of a low-carbon steel) […]
- Carby
noun (pl) -bies (Austral, informal) short for carburettor
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- Carcajou
wolverine (def 1). Historical Examples They seemed prepared to stay there indefinitely, in the hope of starving out the carcajou and tearing her to pieces. The House in the Water Charles G. D. Roberts She did not want to be taken back, even to that little village of carcajou. The Peace of Roaring River George […]