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单词 burl
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burln.1

Brit. /bəːl/, U.S. /bərl/
Etymology: < Old French bourle tuft of wool; compare Spanish borla tuft, tassel, and bur n.
1. A small knot or lump in wool or cloth.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > imperfection in
burlc1440
sheave1696
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > defects or irregularities in
burlc1440
scawe1463
stour1472
brack1552
pirn1688
sheave1696
sprit1737
sprat1756
crow's foot1948
pill1954
soil1959
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 56 Burle of clothe, tumentum.
1870 J. W. Slater Man. Colours 39 These spots or ‘burls’ arise from portions of cotton intermixed with the wool.
1879 in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 342/1 The burler..carefully removes any knots or burls.
2. transferred. A small lump or rising in the skin; a pimple or pustule. Obsolete. (Cf. bur n. 5.)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > [noun] > spot of > pimple
pimplea1398
plouk?c1425
whealc1440
knoll1499
red spota1500
knop1558
blob1597
bumb1598
pumple1601
burl1607
pimple spot1658
tiler1660
pipjenny1670
papula1694
grub1731
papilla1793
papule1828
maculopapule1900
hickey1934
zit1965
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 280 Being mingled with oile by anointment, it taketh away the burles in the face.
1651 N. Culpeper Astrol. Judgm. Dis. (1658) 82 The Sun causeth Pimples and Burles in the Face.
3. The rudiment or bud of a red deer's horn; see quot. 1611. Obsolete. (Cf. bur n. 6.)
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Cervus > Cervus elaphus (red deer) > parts of
gather-bag1575
burl1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Bosse Our wood-men call [the bump], if it bee a red deeres, the burle or seale, and, if a fallow deeres, the button.
4.
a. A knot in wood (U.S.).
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [noun] > knot
knara1382
warrec1407
knob1440
knot?1523
knur1542
pin1545
knag1555
snar1611
bur-knot1618
bur1725
gnarl1824
burl1885
snarla1891
1885 E. S. Morse Japanese Homes (1886) iii. 133 If it is gnarled or tortuous in grain, or if it presents knots or burls, it is all the more desirable.
1887 Advance (Chicago) 10 Mar. 145/1 From each ragged wound grew a burl.
b. An overgrown knot or excrescence in walnut and other woods, used in veneering; also, a log or piece of timber containing such a knot; also, a veneer made with this wood. Cf. bur n. 5b.
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1885 Spons' Mechanics' Own Bk. 356 French walnut burls.
1885 Spons' Mechanics' Own Bk. 356 The ash burls..avoid the necessity of a stay log by having a sufficient part of the trunk on which the burl grew left to serve for this purpose.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

burln.2

Brit. /bəːl/, U.S. /bərl/
Etymology: Apparently variant northern dialect birl a whirring sound, a rapid twist or turn, etc. (see Eng. Dial. Dict. and Sc. National Dict.); compare birl v.2 to revolve, rotate.
1. ? Roundness, fullness. poetic.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity
rotunditya1513
globosity1577
sphericity1625
sphericalness1644
orbicularity1653
globulousness1665
sphericality1669
globularness1715
globularity1750
burl1876
spherality1890
bulbosity1901
1876 G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xvi, in Poems (1967) 56 The burl of the fountains of air.
1883 G. M. Hopkins Serm. & Devotional Writings (1959) 154 Therefore in that ‘cleave’ of being which each of his creatures shews to God's eyes alone (or in its ‘burl’ of being|uncloven) God can choose countless points in the strain (or countless cleaves of the ‘burl’) where the creature has consented, does consent, to God's will in the way above shewn.
2. Also birl. An attempt, a try, a test; esp. in to give it a burl, to make an attempt. Australian and New Zealand colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > make an attempt or endeavour [verb (intransitive)]
fanda1225
procurea1325
assay1370
workc1384
to put oneself in pressc1390
purchasec1400
buskc1450
study1483
fend15..
try1534
enterprise1547
to make an attempt?c1550
to give the venture1589
prove1612
nixuriate1623
to lay out1659
essay1715
to bring (also carry, drive, etc.) one's pigs to market1771
to have (or take or give) a crack1836
to make an out1843
to go to market1870
to give it a burl1917
to have a bash (at)1950
1917 Chrons. N.Z.E.F. 16 May 137/2 So up they [pennies] went and spinning well And betters cried, ‘Fair “burl”!’
1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Nov. 20/4 He [a whale] decided to give the launch a birl. He butted it frequently with his nose.
1939 K. Tennant Foveaux iv. i. 348 How about giving it a burl?
1947 D. M. Davin For Rest of Lives xlv. 227 I thought I'd give it a burl. And I made it, got clean away.
1955 D. Niland Shiralee 108 I'm going to give Eucla a birl. Want to get there as soon as I can.
1969 Private Eye 23 May 14 Might as well give this mead another burl.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

burlv.1

Brit. /bəːl/, U.S. /bərl/
Etymology: < burl n.1 There was a medieval Latin burillāre : see buriller n.
1. transitive. To dress (cloth), esp. by removing knots and lumps; ‘to dress cloth as fullers do’ (Johnson).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > treat or process textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > other processes
starch1390
scour1467
burl1483
waterc1500
calender1513
shoot1532
press1555
gum1612
reimbale1623
strike1701
bias1838
pad1839
spirit1854
bray1879
stream1883
crisp1892
block1905
Schreiner1905
mercerize1911
1483 Cath. Angl. 48 To Burle clothe, extuberare.
1552 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI vi. §27 If..Cloth..happen to be evil burled or wasted in the Mill.
1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1668) ii. v. 128 That the Cloth-worker or Sheer-man burle and dress it sufficiently.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Burl, to dress Cloath as Fullers do.
1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Burl, to dress Cloths as Fullers do.
1882 S. W. Beck Draper's Dict. Burl, to pick the burls from the surface of woollen cloths.
2. To pick out, remove (a lock or flock of wool).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > treat or process wool [verb (transitive)] > other
seam1511
burl1650
pluck1695
trend1777
plank1839
carbonize1893
1650 W. Charleton tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes (new ed.) 26 The..Priest burles a small lock of wooll, from the..upper garment of the Saint.
1863 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 721/2 Burl, to cut away the dirty wool from the hind parts of a sheep.
3. To remove ‘burls’ from the face. nonce-use (see burl n.1 2). Obsolete.
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1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. R4 Of Pushes Spalt has such a knottie race, He needs a Tucker for to burle his face.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

burlv.2

Etymology: Stratmann and Mätzner compare Low German burreln ‘sprudeln’; compare also burble v.1, purl v.3
Obsolete.
intransitive. To bubble, as a spring or fountain out of which water flows gently.
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the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > effervesce [verb (intransitive)] > bubble in water or blood
burblec1440
burlc1440
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > flow out or well up > from a spring gently
burlc1440
c1440 Bone Flor. 1639 Betres lay burlyng in hur blode.
c1450 Erle of Tolous 99 Many a bolde baron..Lay burland yn hys own blode.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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