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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Burton is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Burton \Bur"ton\, n. [Cf. OE. & Prov. E. bort to press or indent anything.] (Naut.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part.

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 1450 Housing Units (2000): 610 Land area (2000): 1.108514 sq. miles (2.871037 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.108514 sq. miles (2.871037 sq. km) FIPS code: 10436 Located within: Ohio ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) An arrangement of blocks and pulleys, especially for tightening rigging on a ship. 2 (context archaic English) Storage of cargo athwartships.

Usage examples of burton.

A manufactory for making candied roots of the Sea Holly was established at Colchester, by Robert Burton, an apothecary, in the seventeenth century, as they were considered both antiscorbutic, and excellent for health.

Burton was evidently a mesne borough under the abbot, who held the court of the manor and received the profits of the borough according to the charter of Henry I.

Sabbath morning, reminded Miss Burton of the time when the poor girl believed that the man she loved, both despised and misjudged her.

There was no knowing what mischief Burton might have been up to with his retouching tools before his untimely demise.

Iiseux in Paris during 1885, and the Kama Shastra Society edition, translated from French into English by Sir Richard Burton, was published in 1886.

Grant, Speke, Burton, Cameron, Stanley, describe the wooded plateau of Central Africa as the principal theatre of the barbarous warfare between chief and chief.

Livingstone first, and after him, Grant, Speke, Burton, Cameron, Stanley, are the heroes whose names will ever be linked with the first dawnings of a brighter age upon the dark wilds of Equatorial Africa.

All the other travelers--Grant, Speke, Burton, Cameron, and Stanley--do not speak otherwise of this wooded plateau of Central Africa, the principal theater of the wars between the chiefs.

At the head, David Livingstone, after him, Grant, Speke, Burton, Cameron, Stanley, those heroes will leave imperishable names as benefactors of humanity.

Van Berg soon appeared, but Miss Burton, on this occasion, managed that the singing should be maintained by quite a large group about the piano, and on account of the sultriness of the evening the service of song was brief.

Yale School of Drama, Rand Foerster, Mark Linn Baker, Neil Mazzella, Drew McCoy, Tony Shaloub, Tommy Derrah, Kristine Neilson, Bill Foeller, Michael Ritchie, Kate Burton, Sybil Burton Christopher, Steve Olsen, Dan Schlissel, Dale Davis, Jay Tarses, Don Scardino, Shannon Kennedy, Dee Sandt, Bill Hatch, Tommy Slaughter, Laura Grey, Dr.

Michael Ritchie, Kate Burton, Sybil Burton Christopher, Steve Olsen, Dan Schlissel, Dale Davis, Jay Tarses, Don Scardino, Shannon Kennedy, Dee Sandt, Bill Hatch, Tommy Slaughter, Laura Grey, Dr.

Burton tossed some recipes out, bullied Veronique into modifying a few and accepted her judgment on still others.

Burton knew Veronique was simply looking into the lens the way Vinee had told her to, but he had the oddest sensation she was gazing directly at him.

His dry tone made it obvious that James Jackson and Wendy Connery, no longer faceless bureaucrats but living, breathing enemies, wanted to give Burton and Veronique as little time as possible to cook up a story between them.