To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth. Burling iron, a peculiar kind of nippers or tweezers used in burling woolen cloth.
A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.
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