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† burrio, burio Sc. Obs.
Also 7 burreo; see also bourreau.
[a. F. bourreau, earlier boreau, borel.]
A hangman, an executioner.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 201 He was burio to himself mair schamefully than we micht devise. 1567Declar. Lordis Quarr. in Dalyell Scot. Poems 16th C. II. 274 Syne with his Burrio [she] band ane new mariage. 1634–46Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 322 Should ye be burrioes to your brethren? [1830Scott Demonol. 324 The Devil..had made her associates..to be their own burrioes.]
fig.a1600Montgomerie Sonn. lix, Lovers..Thoght they persaivd that Burrio Death to bost within [hir] eyis. |