Word Finder - burr

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A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.

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A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing.

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A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.

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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.

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A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.

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The ear lobe.

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The knot at the bottom of an antler.

In 1796 he began the study of law, completing his preparation in 1802 at New York, where he studied under William Peter Van Ness (1778-1826), an eminent lawyer and later Aaron Burr's second in the duel with Alexander Hamilton.

He removed to Richmond in 1803, and during his last years was a leader of the Virginia bar; in 1807 he was one of Aaron Burr's counsel.

At Burr's trial at Richmond in 1807 Eaton was one of the witnesses, but his testimony was unimportant.

He read Burr's character correctly from the beginning; deemed it a patriotic duty to thwart him in his ambitions; defeated his hopes successively of a foreign mission, the presidency, and the governorship of New York; and in his conversations and letters repeatedly and unsparingly denounced him.

And see his comments on Burr's ambitions, Works, x.

To finish, remove the burr on the flat side with a few light strokes.

Special design allows even load during cutting and produces a burr free hole that needs no extra finishing.

Here all the raised burr has been burnished away, leaving none of the velvety mezzotint quality.

Once all visible papilloma was removed, residual mucosa was removed by using a diamond burr to polish bone at the site of origin.

The male main singer's voice has a lovely Scottish burr and their are gentle female vocals too.

In a good mood, he would have done his impressions of the Starkers discussing it in their rough west Country burr.

In the 1770s the wheel was powering three pairs of stones - one each of Cullens, peak and French burr.

The materals used include Silver, gold, African blackwood, Spanish olivewood, thuya burr, bone and blue moonstones.

The shield is made of burr elm, rich in color with lots of features throughout the grain.

I chose a substantial board on which to mount a faceplate and drew an outline of the burr on it using straight lines.

Today it still produces organic stoneground wholemeal flour using French burr stones, a quartz which produces the finest quality flour.

Our top of the range stainless steel coffee mill uses hardened, tempered conical burr grinders with over twenty settings.

We sell a good Russell Hobbs burr grinder for £ 24.49, click to view.

Aaron Burr, in this way, also offers a fascinating prism through which to view the historical personage of Thomas Jefferson.

The traditional leather strop removes any burr, for a razor sharp edge.

This involves the burr walnut veneer being placed onto the glued MDF.

In lacking a browtine, and dividing in a regular fork-like manner some distance above the burr, the large and cylindrical antlers of this species conform to the general structural type characteristic of the American deer.

If matters are propitious to the development of these buds, then a tuft of twigs is formed and no burr; but if the incipient twigs are also destroyed at an early stage, new buds are again formed, and in larger numbers than before, and the continued repetition of these processes leads to a sort of conglomerate woody mass of fused bud-bases, not dead, but unable to grow Out, and thus each contributing a crowded portion of woody material as it slowly grows.

The first break came in the spring of 1804 when Burr, who had incurred the enmity of his Republican colleagues in 1800 by seeking Federalist votes in the electoral college at Jefferson's expense, became an independent candidate for governor against Morgan Lewis.

His faults are nowhere better shown than in his quarrel with John Adams. Three times, in order to accomplish ends deemed by him, personally, to be desirable, Hamilton used the political fortunes of John Adams, in presidential elections, as a mere hazard in his manoeuvres; moreover, after Adams became president, and so the official head of the party, Hamilton constantly advised the members of the president's cabinet, and through them endeavoured to control Adams's policy; and finally, on the eve of the crucial election of 1800, he wrote a bitter personal attack on the president (containing much confidential cabinet information), which was intended for private circulation, but which was secured and published by Aaron Burr, his legal and political rival.

After that he forced a quarrel on a trivial bit of hearsay (that Hamilton had said he had a " despicable " opinion of Burr); and Hamilton, believing as he explained in a letter he left before going to his death - that a compliance with the duelling prejudices of the time was inseparable from the ability to be in future neither wanted war; and indeed Jefferson, throughout life, was the more peaceful of the two.

Everyone gets a splinter at some point - whether from an errant bit of wood, a metal shaving or a thorn or burr from a plant.

A Warner Brothers executive heard Faith Hill singing with Gary Burr in a Nashville cafe, and signed the young singer to a country music contract.

Liquid blood can be drained from burr holes drilled into the skull.

While many cheaper coffee grinders need to be replaced more frequently, your KitchenAid Burr Coffee Grinder is unlikely to need to be replaced for a very, very long time.

It is considered one of the best blade coffee grinders you can buy and some even say that it rivals a burr coffee grinder for the amount of money you spend.

The KitchenAid Burr Coffee Grinder is a great burr coffee grinder although a little on the pricey side, generally costing between $180 and $220.

The Cuisinart Burr Coffee Mill is another great deal at around $50.

Sometimes, retailers offer a major discount on espresso machines when you buy them with professional burr grinders, extra portafilters, cleaning products, and other equipment.

You need to clean the burr blades every day to keep coffee grinds from sticking to them.

Raymond Burr was the actor added with Godzilla, and Albert Dekker and Brian Donlevy were the American stars used in Gamera's first movie remake.

The podiatrist has an electric tool called a burr that sands down the thick yellow nails and makes them easier to care for.

The machinations of Aaron Burr are of interest in connexion with Louisiana annals, and likewise the settlement and revolutionizing of West Florida by Americans.

His father, the Rev. Aaron Burr (1715-1757), was the second president (1748-1757) of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University; his mother was the daughter of Jonathan Edwards, the well-known Calvinist theologian.

Hamilton had opposed Burr's aspirations for the vice-presidency in 1792, and had exerted influence through Washington to prevent his appointment as brigadier-general in 1798, at the time of the threatened war between the United States and France.

It was also in a measure his efforts which led to Burr's lack of success in the New York gubernatorial campaign of 1804; moreover the two had long been rivals at the bar.

Jumel (1769-1865), a rich New York widow; the two soon separated, however, owing to Burr's having lost much of her fortune in speculation.

For the traditional view of Burr's conspiracy, see Henry Adams's History of the United States, vol.

He had a voice both sweet and deep-toned, and its effect was not injured by his Northumbrian burr, which, though strong, was entirely free from harshness and vulgarity."

Towards the completion of its growth a more or less prominent ring of bone, termed the burr or coronet, is deposited at its base just above the junction with the pedicle; this ring tending to constrict the blood-vessels, and thus cut off the supply of blood from the antlers...

If these denunciations were known to Burr they were ignored by him until his last defeat.

In the exciting contest for the presidency in the house of representatives between Jefferson and Burr, it was Gallatin who led the Republicans.

Van Buren made the acquaintance of Burr, but did not fall under his influence.

At the corner of Broad and William streets stood until 1835 the parsonage in which Aaron Burr was born.

The College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, was situated here from 1747 to 1756, for all but the first few months under the presidency of the Rev. Aaron Burr, who published in 1752 the well-known Newark Grammar, long used in Princeton and originally prepared for Burr's very successful boys' school in Newark.