burrburn.1
/bəː/, U.S. /bər/ I. General sense.
1. A circle.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > circularity > a circle
rondelc1300
roundelc1300
circlec1305
compass1340
rondelet1385
cerne1393
burrc1440
orba1460
O1492
O1531
circular1575
rotundo1614
rhomb1656
circumference1667
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 56 Burwhe, sercle [1499 burrowe], orbiculus.
II. A (? protecting) ring, etc.† 2. A broad iron ring on a tilting spear just behind the place for the hand. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > lance > ring behind place for hand
burra1533
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > jousting or tilting > [noun] > equipment > specific parts
morne1494
burra1533
mornette1824
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lxxiiii. sig. Sv Squyers and varlettes were..knockynge on hedes & burres on myghtye speres.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxxvii. 437 Burre, or yron of a launce, [etc.].
1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. D3v I'le try one speare..though it proue too short by the burgh.
1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iv. xiv. 342 The Burre..is a broad ring of Iron behind the..place made for the hand, which Burre is brought vnto the Rest when the Tilter chargeth his Speare or Staffe.
3. A washer placed on the small end of a rivet before the end is swaged down; also (Gunnery) see quot. 1802.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rivet > washer on end of
burr1661
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 240 A brawl.., which with all the burrs of silence should have still stood firmly riveted.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Bur [in Gunnery], a round iron ring, which serves to rivet the end of the bolt, so as to form a round head.
1851 Orders & Regulations Royal Engineers (rev. ed.) §11. 51 Leather Pipes, joined by Copper Rivets and Burs.
1860 H. Stuart Novice's or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 5 Bolt and burr.
4. (See burr-pump n.)
III. In astronomical contexts.
5. A circle of light round the moon (or a star); a brough n. The original sense seems to have been merely ‘circle, halo’; but in modern use there is usually the notion of a nebulous or nimbous disc of light enfolding the luminary; as if modified by association with bur n.
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the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [noun] > aureole
circlea1123
hale1440
brough1496
burrow1499
halo1563
shine1581
burr1631
broucha1657
glory1693
aureole1858
Scheiner's halo1983
1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xxii. 173 A Burre about the Moone is..a presage of a tempest.
1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. IV. lii. 541 The stars seem..surrounded with a sort of burs.
1802 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 92 499 Of Stars with Burs, or Stellar Nebulæ.
1851 J. P. Nichol Archit. Heavens (ed. 9) 128 The halo itself gradually sinking into a bur, or an atmosphere around a star.
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burrburn.2
/bəː/, U.S. /bər/ The sweet-bread of a calf, sheep, etc.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > glands
liverOE
kidneyc1325
rys lumbard?c1390
fee14..
sweetbread1565
burr1573
gut-bread1893
miltz1909
prairie oyster1941
1573 Treat. Arte of Limming 10 To take grease out of parchement or paper: Take shepes burres and burne them to pouder, etc.
1730–6 N. Bailey Dict. Britannicum (at cited word) The Bur of a Beef, etc., the sweet bread.
1752 Hist. Pompey the Litt. 125 Sitting down to a breast of veal..raving at the landlord, because the bur was gone.
1834 E. Copley Housekeeper's Guide v. 107 A sweet-bread (or burr)..boiled.
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burrburn.3
The external meatus of the ear, the opening leading to the tympanum. (This is clear in quot. 1688, since hawks have nothing but an opening; so practically the cropt-eared dog in quot. 1677; quot. 1573 refers to the secretion of wax in the meatus of the ear, and (as was formerly supposed) in the parotid glands or ‘kernels of the ears’ (though it might be read as identifying the ‘burres’ with the ‘kirnels’). Dr. Johnson's explanation ‘the lobe or lap of the ear’ was an unfortunate guess, servilely followed by later dictionaries.)
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the world > life > the body > sense organ > hearing organ > parts of hearing organ > [noun] > canals
burr1573
meatus1615
scala1712
Fallopian canal1877
external auditory meatus1893
porion1916
auditory meatus1920
1573 T. Cooper Thesaurus (new ed.) Parotis..an impostume behinde the eares comming of a matter distilling from the heade into the burres or kirnels of the eares.
1677 London Gaz. No. 1203/4 A Little White Shock Bitch..cropt ears..red above the burrs of her ears.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 237/1 Names of the parts of a Falcon—Of the Head..The Burrs, or Ear burs, are the Ears.
1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Burr, the round Knob of Horn round a Deer's Head.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Burr, the lobe or lap of the ear.
1857 P. Cartwright Autobiogr. (1858) viii. 46 I struck a sudden blow in the burr of the ear and dropped him to the earth.
1928 P. Green In Valley 121 I whammed him in the burr of the ear and piled him.
1954 C. L. B. Hubbard Compl. Dog Breeders' Man. xxxvi. 318 Burr, the irregular formation inside the ear.
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burrburn.4
/bəː/, U.S. /bər/ 1. A rough ridge or edge left on metal or other substance after cutting, punching, etc.; e.g. the roughness produced on a copperplate by the graver; the rough neck left on a bullet in casting; the ridge produced on paper, etc., by puncture.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > [noun] > roughness > roughness of edge > rough edge
burr1611
ragging1683
fash1831
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Bocchina..that stalke or necke of a bullet which in the casting remaines in the necke of the mould, called of our Gunners the bur of the bullet.
1784 E. Darwin in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 5 A bur made by forcing a bodkin through several parallel sheets of paper.
1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 214 The scraper..for rubbing off the burr or barb raised by the graver on the copper plate.
1846 Print. Appar. Amateurs 13 [In type-founding] when the waste piece of metal called the ‘break’ is broken off, the burr that is left is planed away.
1876 Athenæum 25 Nov. 693/3 Burr..is caused by the tearing up of the copper by the needle or burin. A ragged edge is left which holds the ink and gives a rich velvety effect.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 117/2 A burr left at the hinder end of the thread [of a screw] which ‘ragged’ the wood.
2. Technical senses of obscure origin. [? With notion of ‘something rough’, or of ‘tool for removing roughness’.]
a. short for burr-chisel n., burr-drill n. at Compounds (also, a similar instrument used for surgical operations on the bones), burr-saw n. at Compounds.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > chisel > [noun] > other chisels
grooping-ironc1440
grubbing-ironc1440
grubbling iron1530
ripping-chisel1659
paring chisel1675
ripping-chisel1679
flat chisel1688
burr1794
tan-spud1828
spud1846
dogleg1855
jagger1875
pointer1875
spade-chisel1895
claw-chisel1933
burr-chisel-
the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > dentists' drills
burr1859
burr-drill1859
drill1859
foot drill1860
tooth-mill1879
the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > piercing or boring instruments
rinspindlec1392
piercer?a1425
terebellum1678
perforator1739
perforative1740
Terebella1860
pricker1869
burr1899
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 150 Burr, a triangular hollow chissel, used to clear the corners of mortises.
1859 J. Taft Pract. Treat. Operative Dentistry iv. 99 The burs and drills may be made of pieces of wire..and fitted to a socket handle.
1881 C. A. Harris Princ. & Pract. Dentistry (ed. 10) iii. ii. 305 Dr. Forbes has adapted to enamel burrs, chisels and gouges an ingenious handle.
1899 C. Truax Mech. Surgery xviii. 392 Surgical burrs..may be either olive shaped or in cylindrical form, the former being generally preferred.
1939 J. B. Parfitt & Herbert Operative Dental Surg. (ed. 4) ix. 125 The introduction of diamond burs in recent years has almost revolutionized cavity cutting.
b. (See quot.)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > other specific machine tools > [noun] > machine for cutting screw-threads > other screw-cutting equipment
screw-plate1638
screw stock1740
burr1833
screw box1846
thread-gauge1877
pipe die1890
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 145 In the making of screws..workmen..use what they call a burr, or burring tool..The burr is a square piece of steel..having in the centre a hole screwed as accurately as possible with a square thread or worm.
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burr-chisel n. a three-edged chisel used to clear the corners of mortises.
burr-cutter n.
burr-drill n. a dentist's drill with a serrated or file-cut knob or head.
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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > dentists' drills
burr1859
burr-drill1859
drill1859
foot drill1860
tooth-mill1879
1850 C. A. Harris Princ. & Pract. Dental Surg. (ed. 4) iii. iii. 290 The flat and burr-headed drills are very useful for enlarging the opening into the cavity.]
1859 J. Taft Pract. Treat. Operative Dentistry iv. 96 Bur Drills..should be manufactured of the best steel, and wrought with the greatest care.
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burr-gauge n. a plate perforated with holes of graduated sizes, for determining the sizes of burr-drills.
burr-hole n. a hole made by a burr-drill.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [noun] > operations on the skull > hole made by trepanning or drilling
trepan hole1899
burr-hole1948
1948 E. H. Botterell in Brit. Surg. Practice II. 379 Bilateral burr holes are made in the mid-temporal region.
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burr-nipper nippers for cutting away the burr from a leaden bullet.
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burr-saw n. a small circular saw used in turning.
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burrburn.5
/bəː/, U.S. /bər/ 1.
a. Siliceous rock capable of being employed for millstones.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > metamorphic rock > [noun] > burr
burr-stone1690
burr1721
1721 C. King Brit. Merchant I. 288 Burrs for Mill-Stones.
1834 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 25 233 Millstones equal to the best French buhrs.
1857 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1856–7 2 360 Edgar's mill..was for the time, a fine flouring mill, with French buhrs.
1880 R. Jefferies Round about Great Estate 168 The French burrs..come over in fragments.
b. A whetstone.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > sharpening > whetstone
whetstonec725
hone-stone1393
filourc1400
hone1440
rub1502
rubber1553
knife-stone1571
stone1578
oilstone1585
block1592
oil whetstone1601
greenstone1668
scythe-stone1688
water stone1703
sharping-stone1714
Scotch stone1766
honer1780
Turkey hone1794
polishing-slate1801
burr1816
Turkey stone1816
German hone1817
Arkansas1869
rag1877
rock1889
slipstone1927
1816 W. Smith Strata Identified 12 Burs, or scythe stones.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Bur..a whetstone for scythes.
2. A siliceous boss or rock occurring among calcareous, or other softer, formations; a harder part in any freestone.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > intrusion > boss
boss1605
burr1839
1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. iv. 49 Upright bands of hard sandstone, termed ‘Burrs’, which cut through the strata.
1865 J. T. F. Turner Familiar Descr. Old Delabole Slate Quarries 16 Circular saws..are..unable to cut through ‘burrs’..and other hard places.
3. spec. A term applied by quarrymen in Dorsetshire to a soft sandy limestone, with hard silicified bosses, above the ‘Dirt bed’ in the Lower Purbeck series. Also to a harder sandy limestone chiefly made up of comminuted shells, in the Upper Purbeck beds.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > others
lias1404
stone marrow1681
stone marl1682
saint's head stone1763
Kentish rag1769
watericle1776
kankar1793
Cotham1816
mountain limestone1817
tosca1818
cornstone1819
burr1829
coral-limestone1831
scar-limestone1831
Wenlock limestone1834
bavin1839
curf1839
Solenhofen slate1841
Beer stone1871
miliolite limestone1872
Clipsham1877
reef limestone1884
Hopton wood1888
thermo-calcite1888
Kilkenny marble1930
micrite1959
1829 T. Webster Observ. Purb. & Portland Beds, Trans. Geol. Soc. 2nd Ser. II Below this is another mass of calcareous stone, considerably softer..it is divided into two by a slaty bed, the upper being called aish, and the lower the soft burr.
1882 Cornhill Mag. 728 Above this we get the soft burr, a lake sediment.
1883 T. Bond Corfe Castle 51 The stone..locally known by the name of Bur, is perhaps the most durable building stone in England.
4. A partly fused mass of brick; a clinker.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > brick > [noun] > brick made in specific way
semi-brick1601
place brick1621
clinker1659
rubbed brick1663
rubber1744
marl1812
bat1816
burr1823
wire-cut brick1839
place1843
wire-cut1910
rug brick1914
texture brick1940
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 344 Burrs or Clinkers are such as are so much over-burnt as to vitrify, and run two or three together.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. ii. 504 Burrs and clinkers are such bricks as have been violently burnt, or masses of several bricks run together in the clamp or kiln.
1864 Daily Tel. 2 June The advisability of sinking brick burrs in different parts of the river.
5. attributive: see burr-stone n. burr millstone (U.S.).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > millstone
millstoneeOE
quernstoneOE
grindle stone?c1225
grindstonea1250
dog stonea1399
grinding-stonec1440
runner1533
sheeling-stone1563
metate1625
burr millstone1771
mealing stone1866
1771 G. Washington Writings (1931) III. 63 A pair of French burr millstones.
1829 S. Cumings Western Pilot 23 This..is famous for its quarries of stone; from which are manufactured burr mill stones.
1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 182 James Bradford & Co...manufacture yearly seventy-five pairs burr millstones.
1883 Specif. N.E. Railw. (Alnwick & Cornh. Branch) 58 Price of Dry or Burr Walling.
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burrn.6
/bəː/, /bʌr/, U.S. /bər/ 1.
a. A rough sounding of the letter r; spec. the rough uvular trill (= French r grasseyé) characteristic of the county of Northumberland, and found elsewhere as an individual peculiarity.Writers unfamiliar with phonology often confuse the Northumberland burr with the entirely different Scottish r, which is a lingual trill: see quots. 1835, 1873.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [noun] > sonant > liquid > trill > burr
wharling1610
rattle1743
wharl1748
burr1760
whurl1797
birr1837
uvula trill1869
1760 S. Foote Minor Introd. 3 An aunt..just come from the north, with the true Newcastle bur in her throat.
1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 57 From [the Tweed], southward as far as Yorkshire, universally all persons annex a guttural sound to the letter r; a practice which in some places receives the appellation of the Berwick burrh.
1835 W. Irving Abbotsford in Crayon Misc. II. 56 He spoke with a Scottish accent, and with somewhat of the Northumbrian ‘burr’.
1873 J. A. H. Murray Dial. S. Counties Scotl. 86 The northern limits of the burr are very sharply defined, there being no transitional sound between it and the Scotch r. Along the line of the Cheviots, the Scotch r has driven the burr a few miles back, perhaps because many of the farmers and shepherds are of Scotch origin.
1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People (1882) i. §3. 25 The rough Northumbrian burr.
b. Hence, loosely, A rough or dialectal pronunciation, a peculiarity of utterance.
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1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. iv. 66 A Yorkshire burr..was..much better than a Cockney's lisp.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. ii. 41 Your accent..has no rugged burr.
1869 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. I. i. i. 19 Each district has its burr or brogue.
1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ II. lix. 348 Betrayed by his Galilæan burr.
2. [= birr n.1 3.] Whirr, vibratory or rushing noise.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > vibratory sound > [noun] > whirr
whirring1581
hurring1582
whirr1677
burr1818
birr1837
whirra1929
1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 60 Holding his forehead, to keep off the burr Of smothering fancies.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Lett. xl, in Lett., Conversat., & Recoll. II. 177 Put the whole working hive of my thoughts in a whirl and a bur.
1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax I. i. 3 The open house-doors..through which came the drowsy burr of many a stocking-loom.
1860 All Year Round 26 May 159 The burr of working wheels and cranks.
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burrburn.7
/bəː/, U.S. /bər/ 1. A sort of pad for a saddle.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle
saddle-boweOE
arsonc1300
saddle skirt1361
saddle-tree1364
skirtc1400
saddle panel1465
stock-tree1470
stock1497
pommela1500
tree1535
pillion cloth1540
port1548
saddle stock1548
pilch1552
bolster1591
cantle1591
shank-pilliona1599
pillowc1600
pad1604
crutch1607
sivet1607
saddle crutcha1614
saddle eaves1663
saddle tore1681
burr1688
head1688
narve1688
saddle seat1688
sidebar1688
torea1694
quarter1735
bands of a saddle1753
witherband1764
withers1764
peak1775
pillion-stick1784
boot-housing1792
saddle flap1798
saddle lap1803
fork1833
flap1849
horn1849
skirting1852
hunting-horn1854
head-plate1855
saddle horn1856
cantle bar1859
leaping-horn1859
straining1871
stirrup-bar1875
straining-leather1875
spring tree1877
leaping-head1881
officer-tree1894
monkey1911
monkey-strap1915
thigh roll1963
straining-web-
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 345/1 The French Pad Saddle..the Burs of it come wholly round the seat.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Saddle Pad Saddle, of which there are Two sorts, some being made with Burrs before the Seat, others with Bolsters under the Thighs.
2. The refuse of raw silk.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > silk > waste
floss silk1760
burr1798
silk waste1842
strass1858
1798 W. Hutton Life 117 To take out the burs and uneven parts [of a thread of silk].
1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 185 Waste Silk is what surrounds the cocoon... This Burr is proper to stuff quilts.
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burrburn.8
The Banyan-tree ( Ficus indica); also attributive.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Asian trees or shrubs > [noun] > banyan tree
Indian fig1382
Indian fig tree1594
banian-tree1638
war1687
peepul tree1783
burr1813
Brahminy fig tree1814
bo tree1820
bodhi tree1838
pagoda tree1876
waringin1889
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [adjective] > of fig-tree or leaves
fig treea1340
fig-leaved1710
burr1813
1813 J. Forbes Oriental Mem. III. xxviii. 14 A sacred burr, or pipal-tree.
a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1849) 2nd Ser. 407/2 A remarkable banian or burr tree.
1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 271 The bur, the largest of trees.
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† burrv.1
Obsolete. rare.
intransitive. To spread out like a burr round the moon.
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the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [verb (intransitive)] > spread out like an aureole
burr1660
1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness iii. vi. 71 The Rayes of things, burring out from all Bodies that act at a distance.
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burrv.2
/bəː/, U.S. /bər/ transitive. To fashion into a burr or rivet-head.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making tools, equipment, or fastenings > make tools, equipment, or fastenings [verb (transitive)] > processes in making screws
tap1815
screw1833
strip1873
burr1880
1880 Times 27 Dec. 9/4 A tool having a screw and triple clip, which grasps the gas check and burrs it over a projection at the base of the shell.
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burrv.3
1. intransitive. To pronounce a strong uvular r (instead of a trilled r), as is done in Northumberland. Also, loosely, to speak with a rough articulation; to speak inarticulately or indistinctly, to utter the syllable burr or something like it.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [verb (intransitive)] > burr
wharl1634
burr1798
1798 W. Wordsworth Idiot Boy in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 156 Burr, burr—now Johnny's lips they burr, As loud as any mill, or near it.
1816 Monthly Mag. 41 527 There let them burr and oy.
a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 126 He..burred with his r.
2. transitive. To pronounce (r) with a ‘burr’ (or, loosely, with a trill).
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [verb (transitive)] > trill > burr
burr1868
1868 H. Kingsley Mathilde II. 268 There were plenty of r's in it, and he burred them.
1888 N.E.D. at Burr Mod. You cannot speak French like a Parisian, until you have learnt to burr your r's.
3. intransitive. To make a whirring noise.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > vibratory sound > [verb (intransitive)] > whirr
whirra1400
birra1522
skirr1567
brill1688
burr1838
1838 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. IV. 555 We..saw the males [sc. humming birds] in numbers, darting, burring, and squeaking.
1886 E. Hodder Life Earl Shaftesbury I. iii. 139 Amidst the burring din of machinery.
1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xviii. 295 She hated moths. Let it stay there burring and fluttering.
1959 G. Usher Death in Bag xvi. 167 The telephone clacked and burred at length.
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burrv.4
/bəː/, U.S. /bər/ a. intransitive. To use a burr.
b. transitive. To excavate (a tooth) with a burr.
Derivatives
ˈburring n. (attributive) as burring-engine a dentist's machine for driving a burr-drill, etc.; burring tool (see burr n.4 2b).
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the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > dentists' drills > part of
burring1875
handpiece1889
1875 Dental Cosmos 17 510 With the burring-engine I ground off enough of the cusp.
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