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US
/ˈbɝɫ/
]
[ UK /bˈɜːl/ ]
[ UK /bˈɜːl/ ]
NOUN
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree
- the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer
VERB
- remove the burls from cloth
How To Use burl In A Sentence
- For all their rough-and-tumble, burly-bully image, I haven't yet met one who doesn't go all moony over a good painting.
- Owing to the loss of the church records for some years after 1698, Mr. Burleigh is unable to trace when this James Cook left Ednam to “better himself,” but he would take with him a “testificate of church membership” which might possibly, but not probably, still exist. The Life of Captain James Cook
- For the five years before her death his widow had donated an annual gift of £3,000 towards Burley - unknown to many in the village.
- I think bringing comedy back into a burlesque environment is a nice touch.
- The guard ushered me into the office of a burly fiftysomething man in a police uniform. Times, Sunday Times
- I asked as I reverted my gaze to the burly man at the wheel.
- Roger is the furriest one, Peter is the skinniest, the Ox is the burliest, and Moonie has the most energy: he bounces in between the other three, never settling down or staying still. Going Mutant
- The work, epic in its tendencies, belongs to the category of burlesque compositions in macaronic verse (that is in a jargon, made up of Latin words mingled with Italian words, given a Latin aspect), which had already been inaugurated by Tifi Odasi in his "Macaronea", and which, in a measure, marks a continuance of the goliardic traditions of the Middle Ages. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
- The roster of tattooed, pierced misfits and post-punk gals has become a phenomenon with a recent burlesque revue touring North America.
- I was truly a burlesquer a time when it was becoming much more about anatomy, and very little about burlesque.
