Definitions
Black carbon-rich material made from partly burned wood.
Word origin
From Middle English charcole, from charren (“to change, turn”) + cole (“coal”), from Old English cierran (“to change, turn”) + col (“coal”). By surface analysis, char (Etymology 3 [verb]) + coal.
Used in a sentence
“He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.”
“Two vultures […] stood silent side by side like smoking coworkers on break, one charcoal eye staring back at me indifferently.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Artist's black stick”8 letters
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