carburet

noun

1. (obsolete)A carbide.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To react with carbon.
2. (obsolete, transitive)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.”