A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1.
The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting. The graver, in plowing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs. Tomlinson.
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 gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.
The lobe or lap of the ear.
A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.
The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8.
To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur. Mrs. Browning.
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