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单词 burley
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burleyn.1

Etymology: compare French bourrelet , and burr n.1 2.
Obsolete. rare.
‘The butt end of a lance’ (Halliwell).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > lance > broad end of lance
burley1548
reverse1819
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xij One company had the plackard, the rest, the port the burley, the tasses..all gylte.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

burleyn.2

Forms: also burlie, burly.
Etymology: Alteration of byrlaw n.
Scottish and English regional (northern).
= byrlaw n., used in combination burleyman n., burleybailie n. an officer of a byrlaw-court; see quot. 1879.
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society > law > law enforcement > law-enforcement or peace-officer > [noun] > appointed at court-leet
byrlawman1432
byrlaw-grave1477
bylaw-man1590
burleybailie1750
burleyman1750
1599 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione (Jam.) Laws of Burlaw are maid & determined be consent of neichtbors..quhilk..ar commonly called Byrlaw-man.]
1750 C. Campbell in Stewart's Trial App. 146 I..think it's quite right to have burliemen..You will therefore appoint two discreet honest men for that purpose of the tenants; and..be sure you swear them to fidelity in their office.
a1758 A. Ramsay Poems (1800) II. 536 Jude took him for a burlie-bailie.
1864 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 3) 108 Twelve young men, with such a number of the burliemen in town.
1875 J. H. Nodal & G. Milner Gloss. Lancs. Dial.: Pt. I 62 Burly-man.
1879 Athenæum 26 July 115 Burleymen are still appointed at the Courts Leet and Courts Baron. Men of agricultural experience are always chosen, and their duty is to value damages, e.g. to crops from cattle straying.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

burleyn.3

Brit. /ˈbəːli/, U.S. /ˈbərli/
Forms: Also Burley.
Etymology: ? Personal name.
U.S.
An American tobacco, of which there are two varieties, red and white. Also attributive.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > other types of tobacco
craccus1617
mavis1641
shoot-tobacco1666
funk1677
black tobacco1698
kite's-foot1788
dark leaf1829
bird's eye1834
bright leaf1834
honeydew tobacco1835
seed leaf1837
long-tails1839
honeydew1843
caporal1850
dogleg tobacco1856
dogleg1863
Boer1881
burley1881
black boy1898
snus1916
1881 Southern Planter in B. W. Arnold Tobacco Ind. (1897) 35 The White Burley produced in the west has now thoroughly substituted our dark grades.
1900 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 435 The White Burley is entirely air cured, except in exceedingly damp weather, when wood fires may be used.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 10 Feb. 5/2 From the Blue Grass also comes most of what is called the Burley, another fine quality, which is made into chewing tobacco for the American and German.
1952 Economist 29 Nov. Over 155,000 growers of burley tobacco voted on whether they wished to continue..price support for their 1953 crop.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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