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Webster 1913 Edition

(bûrl)

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Burled

(bûrld)

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Burling

[OE.

burle

stuffing, or a knot in cloth; cf. F.

bourlet

bourrelet

, OF.

bourel

, a wreath or a roll of cloth, linen, or leather, stuffed with flocks, etc., dim. of

bourre

. √92. See

To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.

Burling iron

a peculiar kind of nippers or tweezers used in burling woolen cloth.

Noun.

A knot or lump in thread or cloth.

An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.

Verb.

[See Burly.] To dress cloth as fullers do.

To pick knots and loose threads off from cloth.