burl
See also: Burl
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- burr (UK)
Etymology edit
From Middle English burle (“a knot or flaw in cloth”), from Old French bouril, bourril (“flocks or ends of threads which disfigure cloth”), from Old French bourre, from Medieval Latin burra (“flock of wool, coarse hair”).
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /bɝl/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɜːl/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Noun edit
burl (countable and uncountable, plural burls)
- A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot.
- Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
- A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
Translations edit
tree growth
Verb edit
burl (third-person singular simple present burls, present participle burling, simple past and past participle burled)
- To remove the knots in cloth.
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