† burriourburiorn.
Scottish. Obsolete.
= burrio n.
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c1550 Clariodus (1830) iii. l. 464 Sum burriouris ȝe sall gar come ȝow to.
?1590–1 J. Burel Passage of Pilgremer ii, in Poems sig. P2 Thir catif miscreants, I mene, As buriours hes euer bene.
a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) xii. 456 To be his executioners and burriers against ministers.
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