burras-pipen.
? Obsolete.
See quots.
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1676 J. Cooke Mellificium Chirurg. (ed. 3) 444 Those [instruments] needful to carry about are..Incision-Knife, Burras-Pipe and Stitching-Quil both in one.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Burras-pipe, a certain Instrument derived originally from the Goldsmiths, and now also used in Chyrurgery, to keep corroding Powders in, as Vitriol, burnt Allum, Præcipitate, etc.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 259/2 Terms of Art used by the Gold-smiths. Charging, is to lay on the place to be soldered both Soder and Burras.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 308/2 Founders Tools. The Borax Box; of some termed a Borace Box; but more vulgarly a Burras Box, is a Brass or Copper Box with a Pipe in the side, in which bruised Borax is put, to scratch it by little and little out of the Knobbed Pipe, on the place intended to be Soddered.]
1721–1800 in Bailey as in Phillips; hence in Johnson and mod. Dicts.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Burras-pipe, an instrument used by goldsmiths, consisting of a copper box, with a spout, having teeth like a saw; sometimes also used by surgeons for the application of certain solid medicines by inspersion.
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