1. charcoal - Noun
2. charcoal - Adjective
3. charcoal - Verb
4. charcoal - Adjective Satellite
Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.
Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping. Gabriel García Márquez
If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man's head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature. Swami Vivekananda
To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm. Harry Houdini
Not all that is black is charcoal. Filipino Proverb
You cannot write in the chimney with charcoal. Russian Proverb
Cold teaches a man how to steal charcoal. Moroccan Proverb