ballas

[ bal-uhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, (used with a singular verb)

a spherical aggregate of small diamond crystals used for drilling and for various industrial purposes.

Origin of ballas¹

Apparently variant of balas in phrase balas ruby spinel ruby, balas being taken to mean “spinel”

Item an M of provune gollde with a grette Ballas & a Dyamond.

This cannot be distinguished from certain fragments obtained in the Neolithic cemetery at Ballas.

A rough example of No. 44 was found at Ballas, used anciently as a lamp with floating wick.

The crucial case at Ballas was the secondary burial of a Libyan found in one of a group of stairway mastabas.

The sides of one Neolithic tomb at Ballas were lined with bars of this kind.

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