Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to cut, to slash, to hack.

1596		Nashe Have With You to Saffron-Walden in Works III (1883–4) 24: I am the man will deliuer him to thee to be scotcht and carbonadoed.
1623		Dekker Welsh Embassador II i: I had a raw stomach before, and now tis eas’d hange mee, draw mee, quarter mee, cutt mee, Carbonado mee, this, pish.
1631		J. Shirley School of Complement III ii: I will carbonado thee, keep off, or in my fury I will cut thee into Atomes.
1651		T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III i: If her ploud be but up twice and once, her will tug out her sword, and, gads nigs! let her take very many heed, her will carbonado very much legs and arms.
1660		J. Tatham Rump IV i: Let him hang himself, and when he is cold meat, the Divel carbonadoe him for Break-fast.
1670		T. Blount Glossographia 104: Carbonado [...] a slash over the face, which fetcheth the flesh with it.
1680		M. Stevenson Wits Paraphras’d 106: The Lemnian Girls are buxom wenches, / And would have carbona’d thy haunches.
1691		‘A Letany’ in Ebsworth Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 175: From Carbinadoed Sutes on Serges [...] Libera nos Domine.
1699		N. Ward London Spy XI 271: Old Batter’d Bullies, some with Carbonado’d Faces, and others with Pimpgennet Noses.
1731		C. Coffey Devil to Pay II i: I believe she would have carbonardo’d him for his Apoplectick Drunkeness.
1748		Smollett Roderick Random (1979) 51: Hell and damnation! No man in England durst say so much. I would flea him, carbonado him!
1756		W. Toldervy Hist. of the Two Orphans III 198: You deserve to be carbonado’d for treating ladies of the first rank, in this familiar manner.
1765		H. Brooke Fool of Quality I 205: You stubborn little Villain, I will flea you alive, I will carbonade you on the Spot.
1787		Adventures of Jonathan Corncob 62: I used my poker as a cut and thrust, and singed and carbonadoed him with a vengeance.
1791		J. Walker Pronouncing Dict. 73/2: To Carbonado, to cut or hack.
1812		‘Hector Bull-us’ Diverting Hist. of John Bull and Brother Jonathan 41: The light-headed Frogmoreans cut a caper full two yards high, and scampered off fully resolved to carbonado Parson Fred pretty handsomely.
1839		‘Lay of St. Gengulphus’ Bentley’s Misc. 291: Who could surmise a man ever could rise / Who’d been thus carbonado’d, cut up, and dissected?
1889		Clarkson & Richardson Police! 7: The Mohocks [...] under a frenzy of drunkeness, joined in a general sally upon inoffensive persons, whom they knocked down, stabbed, cut, or carbonardoed.