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BURL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does burl mean? 

BURL (noun)
  The noun BURL has 3 senses:

1. the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneerplay

2. a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a treeplay

3. soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by designplay

  Familiarity information: BURL used as a noun is uncommon.


BURL (verb)
  The verb BURL has 1 sense:

1. remove the burls from clothplay

  Familiarity information: BURL used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BURL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("burl" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("burl" is a substance of...):

burl (a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("burl" is a kind of...):

enation; plant process (a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ)

Meronyms (substance of "burl"):

burl (the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer)

Holonyms ("burl" is a part of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

burl; knot; slub

Hypernyms ("burl" is a kind of...):

raggedness; roughness (a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven)

Derivation:

burl (remove the burls from cloth)


BURL (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the burls from cloth

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "burl" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

burl (soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design)


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