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burras-pipe ? Obs.
[f. burras, obs. form of borax (see quot. 1688).]
See quots.
1676J. Cooke Marrow of Surg. (ed. 4) 2 Those [Instruments] needful to be carried about are..Incision-knife, Burras-Pipe and Stitching-Quill both in one. 1678Phillips, Burras-pipe, a certain Instrument derived originally from the Goldsmiths, and now also used in Chyrurgery, to keep corroding Powders in, as Vitriol, burnt Allum, Præcipitate, etc. [1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 259/2 Terms of Art used by the Gold-smiths. Charging, is to lay on the place to be soldered both Soder and Burras. Ibid. iii. 308/2 Founders Tools. The Borax Box; of some termed a Borace Box; but more vulgarly a Burras Box, is a Brass or Copper Box with a Pipe in the side, in which bruised Borax is put, to scratch it by little and little out of the Knobbed Pipe, on the place intended to be Soddered.] 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Burras-pipe, an instrument used by goldsmiths, consisting of a copper box, with a spout, having teeth like a saw; sometimes also used by surgeons for the application of certain solid medicines by inspersion. 1721–1800in Bailey as in Phillips; hence in Johnson and mod. Dicts. |