Burrs
[bɝ]
Examples
- 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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