Burl

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A knot, lump, or slub in yarn or cloth.
  • n. A large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree.
  • n. The wood cut from such an outgrowth, often used decoratively as a veneer.
  • v. To dress or finish (cloth) by removing knots, lumps, slubs, or loose threads.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner.
  • n. Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
  • n. A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
  • v. To remove the knots in cloth.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.
  • n. A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
  • n. An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A small knot or lump in thread, whether woven into cloth or not.
  • n. A knot or an excrescence on walnut and other trees, used for ornamental veneering.
  • To pick knots, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth; specifically, to pick (wool) by hand.
  • To cleanse (cloth), as with fullers' earth or a similar substance.
  • To welter.
  • n. A pimple.
  • Same as birl.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. remove the burls from cloth
  • n. soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
  • n. a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree
  • n. the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer
  • Verb Form
    burled    burling    burls   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    remove    take    withdraw    take away    raggedness    roughness    plant process    enation    wood   
    Form
    burled    burling   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Berle    Curl    Earl    Earle    Erl    Merle    Pearl    Perl    Perle    Shirl   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gnarl    corridor    uniform'    grapefruit    deal    stefani    wintergreen    shagbark    average-sized    mountain ash