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▪ I. burl, n.1|bɜːl|
[a. OF. bourle tuft of wool; cf. Sp. borla tuft, tassel, and burr.]
1. A small knot or lump in wool or cloth.
c1440Promp. Parv. 56 Burle of clothe, tumentum. 1870Slater Colours 39 These spots or ‘burls’ arise from portions of cotton intermixed with the wool. 1879in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 342/1 The burler..carefully removes any knots or burls.
†2. transf. A small lump or rising in the skin; a pimple or pustule. Obs. (Cf. bur n. 5.)
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 220 The powder of the Hedge-hogs skin, being mingled with oil by anointment, taketh away the burles in the face. 1651Culpepper Astrol. Judgem. Dis. (1658) 82 The Sun causeth Pimples and Burles in the Face.
†3. The rudiment or bud of a red deer's horn; see quot. Obs. (Cf. bur n. 6.)
1611Cotgr. s.v. Bosse, Our wood-men call [the bump], if it bee a red deeres, the burle or seale, and, if a fallow deeres, the button.
4. a. A knot in wood (U.S.).
1886E. S. Morse Japan. Homes iii. 133 If it is gnarled or tortuous in grain, or if it presents knots or burls, it is all the more desirable. 1887Advance (Chicago) 10 Mar. 145/1 From each ragged wound grew a burl.
b. An overgrown knot or excrescence in walnut and other woods, used in veneering; also, a log or piece of timber containing such a knot; also, a veneer made with this wood. Cf. bur, burr, n. 5 b.
1885Spons' Mech. Own Bk. 356 French walnut burls. Ibid., The ash burls..avoid the necessity of a stay log by having a sufficient part of the trunk on which the burl grew left to serve for this purpose.
▪ II. burl, n.2|bɜːl|
[App. var. north. dial. birl a whirring sound, a rapid twist or turn, etc. (see E.D.D. and Sc. Nat. Dict.); cf. birl v. to revolve, rotate.]
1. ? Roundness, fullness. poet.
1876G. M. Hopkins Wr. Deutschland (1918) st. 16 The burl of the fountains of air. 1883― Serm. & Writings (1959) 154 Therefore in that ‘cleave’ of being which each of his creatures shews to God's eyes alone (or in its ‘burl’ of being{vb}uncloven) God can choose countless points in the strain (or countless cleaves of the ‘burl’) where the creature has consented, does consent, to God's will in the way above shewn.
2. Also birl. An attempt, a try, a test; esp. in phr. to give it a burl, to make an attempt. Austral. and N.Z. colloq.
1917N.Z.E.F. Chrons. 16 May 137/2 So up they [pennies] went and spinning well And betters cried, ‘Fair ‘burl’!’ 1933Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Nov. 20/4 He [a whale] decided to give the launch a birl. He butted it frequently with his nose. 1939K. Tennant Foveaux iv. i. 348 How about giving it a burl? 1947D. M. Davin For Rest of Lives xlv. 227, I thought I'd give it a burl. And I made it, got clean away. 1955D. Niland Shiralee 108, I'm going to give Eucla a birl. Want to get there as soon as I can. 1969Private Eye 23 May 14 Might as well give this mead another burl.
▪ III. burl, v.1|bɜːl|
[f. the n. There was a med.L. burillāre: see buriller.]
1. trans. To dress (cloth), esp. by removing knots and lumps; ‘to dress cloth as fullers do’ (J).
1483Cath. Angl. 48 To Burle clothe, extuberare. 1552Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI, vi. §27 If..Cloth..happen to be evil burled or wasted in the Mill. 1611Markham Countr. Content. ii. v. (1668) 128 That the Cloth-worker or Sheer-man burle and dress it sufficiently. 1706Phillips, Burl, to dress Cloath as Fullers do. 1730–6Bailey, Burl, to pick out the Straws or Threads of Cloth which have not taken the Dye, as Cloth-drawers do. 1882Beck Draper's Dict., Burl, to pick the burls from the surface of woollen cloths.
2. To pick out, remove (a lock or flock of wool).
1650Charleton Paradoxes 26 The..Priest burles a small lock of wooll, from the..upper garment of the Saint. 1863Morton Cycl. Agric. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Burl, to cut away the dirty wool from the hind parts of a sheep.
†3. To remove ‘burls’ from the face. nonce-use (see burl n.1 2). Obs.
1648Herrick Hesper. (1869) 226 Of pushes Spalt has such a knottie race, He needs a tucker for to burle his face.
▪ IV. † burl, v.2 Obs.
[Stratmann and Mätzner compare LG. burreln ‘sprudeln’; cf. also burble, purl.]
intr. To bubble, as a spring or fountain out of which water flows gently.
c1440Bone Flor. 1639 Betres lay burlyng in hur blode. c1450Erle of Tolous 99 Many a bolde baron..Lay burland yn hys own blode.
▪ V. burl, burler
dial. forms of birl, birler. |