burr
IPA: bˈɝ
noun
- A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.
- A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing.
- A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.
- 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.
- A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.
- The ear lobe.
- A burr knot or burl.
- The knot at the bottom of an antler.
- (engineering) A revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces used to grind hard products in a grinder or mill.
- A rough humming sound.
- A uvular "r" sound, or (by extension) an accent characterized by this sound.
- (historical) A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.
- 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry:
- 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia:
- 2003, Thomas Howard Crofts, Fifteenth-century Malory, page 290:
- 2012, Howard Pyle, The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur:
- 2015, James B. Tschen-Emmons, Artifacts from Medieval Europe, page 280:
- A surname.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Florida Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Ripley County, Missouri.
- A village in Otoe County, Nebraska, named after burr oak trees.
- An unincorporated community in Wharton County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
- A community in Rural Municipality of Wolverine No. 340, central Saskatchewan, Canada.
- (Britain) Alternative spelling of burl [A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot.]
verb
- (transitive, engineering) To grind using a burr (revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces).
- (transitive) To pronounce with a uvular "r".
- (intransitive) To make a rough humming sound.
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Examples of "burr" in Sentences
- Aaron Burr had a DUEL with a guy.
- Burr rushes to the detective's aid.
- And the burr gives an exotic touch.
- To return to pronounce wtth a burr .
- The burr is around a centimeter long.
- The rollover burr is the most common.
- This is like a burr under the saddle.
- Burr then became the second president.
- The Burr dilemma is completely irrelevant to this.
- They find that the burr is a little basket filled with seeds.
- Other kinds of grinders are known as burr grinders, use-grinding wheels.
- The ball is burr coated and the target is provided with burr adherent material.
- England has a wonderful variety of accents, - as we do, and I love that Geordie 'burr'.
- There were two roses of similar quality, one that detestable mockery known as the burr-rose.
- The burr is an excrescence of would-be buds rising from somewhere deep inside the tree like a spring.
- Southern California has a troublesome burr, which is not found north of Sacramento, except on the lower lands.
- I came to bed to sleep, and every time I'm dozing off nicely and comfortably you begin _burr, burr, burr_, and I can't understand you a bit. "
- The name burr clover has doubtless arisen from the closely coiled seed pod, which, being covered with curved prickles, adhere to wool more or less as burrs do.
- By Valleys Mam, at Fri Nov 02, 07:06:00 PM anon - I find no similarity between the accents of Montgomeryshire and there is the world of difference between Llanfair Caereinion and Newtown and what you call the burr used the English side of Offa's Dyke.
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