name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
burl
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /bɝl/
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Received-Pronunciation: /bɜːl/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)l
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CMU ARPABET: B ER1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
Meaning 5
To remove the knots in cloth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: slub, knot
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: roughness, raggedness
noun
Meaning 7
a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: plant process, enation
noun
Meaning 8
the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wood
verb
Meaning 9
remove the burls from cloth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: remove, take, take away, withdraw
History
Etymology
From Middle English burle (“a knot or flaw in cloth”), from Old French bourle (“flocks or ends of threads which disfigure cloth”), diminutive of Old French bourre, from Medieval Latin burra (“flock of wool, coarse hair”).
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: pahka — tree growth
- French: loupe — tree growth
- Hungarian: görcs — tree growth
- Hungarian: göcs — tree growth
- Hungarian: göcsört — tree growth
- Ingrian: pahka — tree growth
- Ingrian: pahko — tree growth
- Lower Tanana: decheneɬghasr — tree growth
- Occitan: bachòca — tree growth
- Russian: кап (kap) — tree growth
- Swedish: vril — tree growth
- Swedish: masurknöl — tree growth
- French: loupe — mottled wood
- Russian: кап (kap) — mottled wood
- Spanish: lobanillo — mottled wood
- Spanish: lupia — mottled wood