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A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants.
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Any of several plants having such husks.
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A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads.
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A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner.
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Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
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A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
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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.
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A rough humming sound.
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A uvular "r".
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A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.
Examples of burs in a Sentence
Alcohol is distilled from nipa, coco-nuts, burs (Corypha umbraculifera), cauong (Caryota onusta), pugahan (Caryota urens) and Indian corn.
A bird sits on the next bough, life-everlasting grows under the table, and blackberry vines run round its legs; pine cones, chestnut burs, and strawberry leaves are strewn about.
They grew also behind my house, and one large tree, which almost overshadowed it, was, when in flower, a bouquet which scented the whole neighborhood, but the squirrels and the jays got most of its fruit; the last coming in flocks early in the morning and picking the nuts out of the burs before they fell, I relinquished these trees to them and visited the more distant woods composed wholly of chestnut.
It was very exciting at that season to roam the then boundless chestnut woods of Lincoln--they now sleep their long sleep under the railroad--with a bag on my shoulder, and a stick to open burs with in my hand, for I did not always wait for the frost, amid the rustling of leaves and the loud reproofs of the red squirrels and the jays, whose half-consumed nuts I sometimes stole, for the burs which they had selected were sure to contain sound ones.