Burr
[bɜː]
Definition
(noun.) rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting.
(noun.) rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece.
(noun.) United States politician who served as vice president under Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south (1756-1836).
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Definition
(n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.
(n.) The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.
(n.) A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4.
(n.) The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5.
(n.) The sweetbread.
(n.) A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.
(n.) A small circular saw.
(n.) A triangular chisel.
(n.) A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.
(n.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head.
(n.) A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1.
(n.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting.
(n.) A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
(n.) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.
(n.) The lobe or lap of the ear.
(n.) A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.
(n.) The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8.
(v. i.) To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.
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Definition
Same asBur (q.v.).
Edited by Estelle
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of burrs, denotes that you will struggle to free self from some unpleasant burden, and will seek a change of surroundings.
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Examples
- It has no rugged burr, no nasal twang, such as almost every one's voice here in the north has. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What provoking burr has been inconveniently attracted to the charming skirts, and with difficulty shaken off? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Love will make you show your heart one day, and then the rough burr will fall off. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Provoking indeed,' said Bella, 'and no burr to boast of! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Originally this was done by combing it with teasles, a sort of dried burr of vegetable growth, having a multitude of fine hook-shaped points. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I have one of my Baker Street boys mounting guard over him who would stick to him like a burr, go where he might. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Frost opens chestnut burrs, ma'am, and it takes a good shake to bring them down. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Formerly two horizontal disk-shaped stones or burrs were employed, the lower one stationary and the upper one revolving in a horizontal plane and crudely crushing the grain between them. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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