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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sardonyx \Sar"do*nyx\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?. See Sard, and Onyx.] (Min.) A variety of onyx consisting of sard and white chalcedony in alternate layers.
Wiktionary
n. A gemstone having bands of red sard; a variety of onyx or chalcedony.
WordNet
n. an onyx characterized by parallel layers of sard and a different colored mineral
Wikipedia
The Sardonyx was an electric guitar made in small numbers in the late 1970s. The guitar was notable because of its small rectangular wood body that had "outrigger" aluminum tubes running parallel to the body. Popularized by Howard Leese, then guitarist for Heart, it was one of the two main guitars used by John Lennon during the recording of Double Fantasy. Other notable players were Ian Hunter and Wes Beech of the Plasmatics.
The Sardonyx was made by luthier Jeff Levin, who worked for Matt Umanov's Lower Manhattan's guitar store. The body is made of wood. Inside the top aluminum tube is a smaller tube to which the strap is attached; it slides in and out, allowing the player to balance the guitar. A basic and a more upscale model were available, with Leese, Lennon, and Hunter playing the latter. Its electronics were highly complex: the guitar had two output channels, and the player could, via a set of mini-toggle switches, direct the sound from each of two DiMarzio humbucker pickups to either of the channels, with pickups set in series, parallel, or out of phase with each other. Levin also made a bass version.
Umanov estimates that maybe two dozen guitars were built. Years later, Earnie Bailey (former guitar technician for Kurt Cobain and the Foo Fighters), built some 30 guitars and basses based on the Sardonyx, sold mostly to collectors.
Usage examples of "sardonyx".
Now he had nothing: no money -- well, very damn little, just enough to survive -- no dorazine to sell, not even the name of a contact in Sardonyx Sector.
He wondered if, by some lucky chance, Russell might be working Sardonyx Sector.
Indeed, the redhead had warned him sharply that if he was planning to turn drug courier, he should stay well away from Sardonyx Sector.
The drug runners were bringing in comine, nightshade, tabac, zimweed, but the pressure was on in Sector Sardonyx, and no one was carrying dorazine.
The colonies in Sardonyx Sector sent their criminals there, with tents and tools and packets of seed.
Each year the Net traveled to Sabado, Belle, Ley, and Enchanter, the other four worlds of Sardonyx Sector, to choose prisoners from their prisons to fill the Net cells.
The contract-slave system into which Sector Sardonyx impressed its criminals was no better or worse than methods in other places.
The Yago Net transports dorazine to the prisons of Sector Sardonyx, and nowhere else.
I could never work Sardonyx Sector again, and when word got around -- and it would -- no other sector either.
Transporting dorazine inter-sector is illegal, punishable by a high fine and a prison term, which in Sector Sardonyx translates to -- this.
She had at once sent a communication to all Family Yago associates throughout Sector Sardonyx, requesting information about the man.
Binkie computed for me this morning our storage figures and our demand figures: what we will need to supply the Net, the prisons of Sector Sardonyx, and our own workers at the kerit farm for one more year.
Only beings arrested and convicted of criminal activities within Sardonyx Sector may be subject to slavery, and only the worlds of Sardonyx Sector may offer prisoners to the slave auction, understanding that when they do so, these criminals, whatever their crimes, talents, and places of origin, may serve out their sentences to become citizens of Chabad with all due rights, privileges, and responsibilities.
But the Federation had bound itself not to interfere with local custom, and the other worlds in Sardonyx Sector supported Chabad.
Chabad will never see me again, and Sector Sardonyx and Family Yago can go to hell!