burnt
verb
a simple past tense and past participle of burn.
well-burnt
-
a word derived from
burnt.
Example Sentences
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And he illustrates thus: Suppose a man building with good, square, well-burnt bricks; without the use of mortar he may build a wall of a certain height and stability.
From The Teaching of Jesus by George Jackson
There were churches too, which we discovered to be such by their construction and the massiveness of their walls; many of them of considerable size, and built of well-burnt bricks.
From Hurricane Hurry by William Henry Giles Kingston
Had this been the case, the artist need not have looked farther for the furnishing of his palette than to a supply of well-burnt and levigated enamel pigments.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
The potter overwhelmed the Rat with thanks for his obliging kindness, and choosing out a nice well-burnt pipkin, insisted on his accepting it as a remembrance.
From Tales of the Punjab by Flora Annie Steel
The cupels are made of well-burnt bone-ash, of the fineness of coarse wheat flour, moistened with one-twelfth its weight of water and compressed into shape in suitable moulds.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
