Crossword clues for burl
burl
- Folksinger Ives
- Knot in wool
- Folk singer and entertainer Ives
- Balladeer Ives
- Singer/actor Ives
- Rounded tree outgrowth
- Musical Ives
- Mr. Ives
- Lump on a trunk
- Knotty tree growth
- Knotty growth
- Ives who sang "A Holly Jolly Christmas"
- Ives of the stop-motion animation classic "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
- Ives of song
- Ives of folk music
- Ives of "The Big Country"
- Folksy Ives
- Folk-singer Ives
- Entertaining Ives
- "The Big Country" Oscar winner Ives
- "Blue Tail Fly" singer Ives
- Knot in wood
- Singer Ives
- Small knot in wood
- Lump in cloth
- Either an imperfection or created by design
- Soft lump or unevenness in a yarn
- A large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree
- Actor-singer Ives
- Knot in yarn
- Arboreal outgrowth
- Folk singer Ives
- Tree growth
- Ives of "East of Eden"
- Veneer source
- Actor Ives
- Bump on a log
- Tree protuberance
- Tree feature
- Tree bump
- Oscar winner Ives
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Burl \Burl\ (b[^u]rl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burled (b[^u]rld); 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. [root]92. See Bur.] 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.
Burl \Burl\, n.
A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small knot in wool or cloth," mid-15c., from Old French bourle "tuft of wool," which perhaps is related to the root of bur, or from Vulgar Latin *burrula "small flock of wool," from Late Latin burra "wool."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. 2 Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth. 3 A knot or lump in thread or cloth. vb. To remove the knots in cloth.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Burl is the given name of:
- Burl Barer (born 1947), American author and literary historian best known for his work on the character of Simon Templar, aka "the Saint"
- Burl Cain, warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as Angola)
- Burl Jaybird Coleman (1896-1950), American country blues harmonica player, guitarist and singer
- Burl Ives (1909-1995), American actor, folk music singer and writer
- Burl Osborne (c. 1937–2012), American reporter and publisher
- Burl Plunkett (1933–2008), former women's basketball coach at the University of Oklahoma
- Burl S. Watson (1893-1975), American businessman
Burl is an EP by Killdozer, released in November, 1986 through Touch and Go Records.
Usage examples of "burl".
It was, thought Burl, a dim day, but this he supposed was due to the earliness of the morning.
When they had finished supper and the Sun was casting its last red rays over the rapidly purpling landscape, Burl got out the expedition radio, set up its antenna, plugged in its compact atomic battery, and tried to get the news from Lima.
The Moon was rising on the horizon as Burl sat playing with the antenna.
At the first sign of light breaking in the morning horizon, Burl and his father started off.
Panting and weary with hours of climbing, Burl and his father made a quick lunch in a sheltered jumble of rock near the top.
Once Burl had gotten used to the odd visual effect, which was like gazing into the twisting heat rays rising from an overheated oven, he saw that there was a small flat region between the mountains.
Now, for the first time, Burl realized what he had not had time to beforethis was an enemy he and his father were facingan enemy of all mankindand utterly unknown.
The wall was of a rocklike substance, but it was not like any rock or plastic Burl had ever seen.
When the smoke cleared, Burl and his father leaped to their feet, rifles in hand.
Dejected, Burl kicked a loose pebble and watched it rattle against a column near the main control board.
Mark Denning watched as Burl turned dials and levers and got responses.
Above them came a whirring noise, and Burl looked up to see the masts withdrawing into the building, their discs presumably left flat and directionless.
One by one, these men were introduced, and as each one was named, Burl wondered more about what was to come.
They drew out the full account of what Burl and his father had seen in that valley, and of what the Sun-theft globes appeared to be like in operation.
They concentrated deeply on the curious experience which had placed in Burl the charge that enabled him to control the machines.