burl

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English

A burl on a Silver Birch.
Maple burl (not to be confused with bird's-eye maple).

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Etymology

From Middle English burle (“a knot or flaw in cloth”), from Old French bouril, bourril (“flocks or ends of threads which disfigure cloth”), from Old French bourre, from Medieval Latin burra (“flock of wool, coarse hair”).

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Noun

burl (countable and uncountable, plural burls)

  1. A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot.
  2. Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
  3. A knot or lump in thread or cloth.

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Verb

burl (third-person singular simple present burls, present participle burling, simple past and past participle burled)

  1. To remove the knots in cloth.

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