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burl::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | knot, slub |
| Type of | raggedness, roughness |
burl::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | plant process, enation |
burl::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | wood |
Examples of burl
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A knobby burl creates a humpback and an elbowed branch seems to flex its muscle.
From the cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com
Burl Toler had the most California receptions, catching six passes for 84 yards.
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All the pieces in the home are reproductions in mahogany rosewood or burl wood.
From the kentucky.com
The gleaming walnut burl stock was sculpted from an 800-year-old Turkish tree.
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Burl Ives as the doctor made a sly sweet monster, but he wasn't really scary.
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Burl joined the team for summer workouts and forced his way on special teams.
From the denverpost.com
The burl buds are placed in glass tubes filled with a small amount of water.
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It had a sand-tone interior augmented by judicious applications of burl walnut trim.
From the washingtonpost.com
You can choose from a variety of trims, from fine walnut to ash burl or piano black.
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- The wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer
- Remove the burls from cloth
- A large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree
- Slub: soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- (burled) (of wood) have a pattern from the grain of a tree burl
- A burl (American English) or bur or burr (British English) is a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. It is commonly found in the form of a rounded outgrowth on a tree trunk or branch that is filled with small knots from dormant buds. ...
- Gertrude Simmons Burlingham (April 21, 1872 u2013 January 11, 1952) was an early 20th-century mycologist best known for her work on American Russula and Lactarius and pioneering the use of microscopic spore features and iodine staining for species identification. Her life outside scientific research has been little documented with the exception of the most basic biographical information.
- Burling is a surname with English origins, more specifically it derives from Essex and Cambridgeshire a habitational name from a place in Kent named Birling. It was an Old English personal name of Burla with the suffix 'ingas' denoting u2018family or followers'. It may refer to:
- (Burled) (American) or burr (British) wood veneer Popular from the seventeenth century. Made from the tumescent growth of certain trees (notably walnut). Valued for unusual but attractive grain.
