recarbonv.
/ˌriːˈkɑːbən/, U.S. /ˌriˈkɑrbən/ Now historical and rare.
transitive. To fit (a carbon arc lamp) with new carbon electrodes.
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1902 W. J. Dibdin Public Lighting 445 There are two pairs of carbons in each lamp, such being necessary to allow of the lamp burning throughout the whole of a winter night without being re-carboned.
1914 Trans. Optical Soc. 15 218 Among various accessories recently introduced may be mentioned the use of a twin searchlight, so that one light can be kept burning while the other is recarboned.
1917 C. N. Bennett Guide to Kinematogr. xi. 185 If someone will..kindly re-carbon the arc for us and turn on the electric current we shall be ready to start showing.
2005 V. Smil Creating 20th Cent. ii. 38 That still left considerable costs of the carbons and the labor for recarboning the devices.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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