Definition of "carburet" in English

noun

1. (chemistry, obsolete) A carbide.

verb

1. (transitive, chemistry, obsolete) To react with carbon.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To enrich an illuminating gas with carbon-rich fuel.

   • Where there may be objections to the use or application of the foregoing mode of using peat gas for illuminating purposes, I employ another method of obtaining that object, and which is to carburet the peat gas by means of charred peat, in the same way as I carburet the vapours of sulphur to educe a bisulphuret of carbon. William Benson Stones, an 1850 patent

3. (transitive) To mix air with hydrocarbons, especially with petroleum, as in an internal combustion engine.

4. (transitive) To equip with a carburetor.

   • Later models were fuel-injected, but the earliest ones were carbureted.