单词 | burl |
释义 | burln.1 1. A small knot or lump in wool or cloth. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.). ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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 1. ? Roundness, fullness. poetic. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 1. transitive. To dress (cloth), esp. by removing knots and lumps; ‘to dress cloth as fullers do’ (Johnson). ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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 Obsolete. intransitive. To bubble, as a spring or fountain out of which water flows gently. ΘΚΠ 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. 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