Garnet

Mommy, I want you to buy me a garnet!

"Garnet" is a name applied to a group of closely-related minerals, many of which are used as gemstones.

The garnet was included, with other red stones, by Theophrastus, under the name of ἄνθραξ, while the common garnet seems to have been his ἀνθράκιον.

Pliny groups several stones, including garnet, under the term carbunculus.

Flat polished slabs of garnet are found inlaid in mosaic work in Anglo-Saxon and Merovingian jewelry, the material used being almandine, or “precious garnet.”

A pomegranate is a fruit, a grenade is a projectile, and a garnet is a mineral.

How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.

Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)

Using a garnet for the lower-deck guns on the lower deck: Lash the centre of the yard to the mast, and hook both burtons to support the yard.