Definitions of charcoal

1. Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.

2. Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.

3. a stick of black carbon material used for drawing

4. a drawing made with charcoal

5. a very dark gray color

6. Coal made by charring or burning wood under turf.

7. Coal made from wood by baking.

8. A black, porous substance, made by charring wood; nearly pure carbon.

9. Coal made by charring wood.

10. Wood burnt into carbon, or made black all through like coal; animal charcoal, lamp- black derived from oils and fat; wood charcoal, from twigs and faggots; mineral charcoal or coke, from ordinary pit- coal.

11. very dark gray