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noun
1.
Also, buhr. a protruding, ragged edge raised on the surface of metal during drilling, shearing, punching, or engraving.
2.
a rough or irregular protuberance on any object, as on a tree.
3.
a small, hand-held, power-driven milling cutter, used by machinists and die makers for deepening, widening, or undercutting small recesses.
4.
a lump of brick fused or warped in firing.
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noun
1.
2.
a pronunciation of the r- sound as an alveolar flap or trill, as in Scottish English.
3.
any pronunciation popularly considered rough or nonurban.
4.
a whirring noise.
verb (used without object)
5.
to speak with a burr.
6.
to speak roughly, indistinctly, or inarticulately.
7.
to make a whirring sound.
verb (used with object)
8.
to pronounce (words, sounds, etc.) with a burr.
Origin:
1750–60; apparently both imitative and associative, the sound being thought of as rough like a bur
1750–60; apparently both imitative and associative, the sound being thought of as rough like a bur
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World English Dictionary
burr1 (bɜː) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a small power-driven hand-operated rotary file, esp for removing burrs or for machining recesses |
| 2. | a rough edge left on a workpiece after cutting, drilling, etc |
| 3. | a rough or irregular protuberance, such as a burl on a tree |
| 4. | (Brit) a burl on the trunk or root of a tree, sliced across for use as decorative veneer |
| —n, —vb | |
| 5. | a variant spelling of bur |
| —vb | |
| 6. | to form a rough edge on (a workpiece) |
| 7. | to remove burrs from (a workpiece) by grinding, filing, etc; deburr |
| [C14: variant of | |
| burr2 (bɜː) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | phonetics an articulation of (r) characteristic of certain English dialects, esp the uvular fricative trill of Northumberland or the retroflex r of the West of England |
| 2. | a whirring sound |
| —vb | |
| 3. | to pronounce (words) with a burr |
| 4. | to make a whirring sound |
| [C18: either special use of | |
| burr or bur3 (bɜː) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a washer fitting around the end of a rivet |
| 2. | a blank punched out of sheet metal |
| [C16 (in the sense: broad ring on a spear): variant of burrow (in obsolete sense: | |
| bur or bur3 | |
| —n | |
| [C16 (in the sense: broad ring on a spear): variant of burrow (in obsolete sense: | |
| burr, buhr or bur4 (bɜː) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | short for buhrstone |
| 2. | a mass of hard siliceous rock surrounded by softer rock |
| [C18: probably from | |
| buhr, buhr or bur4 | |
| —n | |
| [C18: probably from | |
| bur, buhr or bur4 | |
| —n | |
| [C18: probably from | |
| Burr (bɜː) | |
| —n | |
| Aaron. 1756--1836, US vice-president (1800--04), who fled after killing a political rival in a duel and plotted to create an independent empire in the western US; acquitted (1807) of treason | |
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Word Origin & History
burr
"rough sound of the letter -r-" (especially that common in Northumberland), 1760, later extended to "northern accented speech" in general. Possibly the sound of the word is imitative of the speech peculiarity itself, or it was adapted from one of the senses of bur (q.v.), perhaps
from the phrase to have a bur in (one's) throat (late 14c.), which was a figure of speech for "feel a choking sensation, huskiness." The Scottish -r- is a lingual trill, not a true burr.
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Medical Dictionary
burr (bûr)
n.
Variant of bur.
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Science Dictionary
bur also burr  (bûr) Pronunciation Key
A type of pseudocarp in which the outer surface possesses hooks or barbs. Burs become caught in the feathers or hair of animals, which then carry them away to disperse the seeds. |
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Example sentences from the web
The bridge has a single span, wooden, double burr arch trusses design.
The sixth station, also on the electric line, is a half mile north on burr oak ave.
The acquisition of the entire parcel bounded by burr oak ave.
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