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char·coal (chär'kōl')
n.
  1. A black, porous, carbonaceous material, 85 to 98 percent carbon, produced by the destructive distillation of wood and used as a fuel, filter, and absorbent.
    1. A drawing pencil or crayon made from this material.
    2. A drawing executed with such a pencil or crayon.
  2. A dark grayish brown to black or dark purplish gray.
tr.v., -coaled, -coal·ing, -coals.
  1. To draw, write, or blacken with a black, carbonaceous material.
  2. To charbroil.

[Middle English charcol : char (perhaps from Old French charbon , from Latin carbō; see carbon) + col, charcoal, coal; see coal.]




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