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Webster 1913 Edition


Burl

Burl

(bûrl)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Burled
(bûrld)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Burling
.]
[OE.
burle
stuffing, or a knot in cloth; cf. F.
bourlet
,
bourrelet
, OF.
bourel
, a wreath or a roll of cloth, linen, or leather, stuffed with flocks, etc., dim. of
bourre
. √92. See
Bur
.]
To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.
Burling iron
,
a peculiar kind of nippers or tweezers used in burling woolen cloth.

Burl

,
Noun.
1.
A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
2.
An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.

Webster 1828 Edition


Burl

BURL

,
Verb.
T.
[See Burly.] To dress cloth as fullers do.
1.
To pick knots and loose threads off from cloth.

Definition 2024


burl

burl

English

A burl on a Silver Birch.
Maple burl (not to be confused with bird's-eye maple).

Alternative forms

Noun

burl (plural burls)

  1. A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner.
  2. Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
  3. A knot or lump in thread or cloth.

Translations

Verb

burl (third-person singular simple present burls, present participle burling, simple past and past participle burled)

  1. To remove the knots in cloth.

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