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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Carbonado

A chop; mince meat. Strictly speaking, a carbonado is a piece of meat cut crosswise for the gridiron. (Latin, carbo, a coal.) 

If he do come in my way, so; if he do not- if
I come in his willingly, let him make a carbonado of me.
—Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., v. 3.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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