The Collaborative International Dictionary
burled \burled\ (b[^u]rld), adj. having an irregular pattern from the grain of a tree burl[2], or one resembling such a pattern, in contrast to the regular wood grain consisting of parallel or concentric lines; -- of wood.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: burl)
WordNet
adj. (of wood) have a pattern from the grain of a tree burl
Usage examples of "burled".
Hair the color of burled maple curled across his shoulders and rippled in some unfelt breeze, and a beard shot through with bars of iron grey and shimmering with oil framed a face wide-browed and clear-eyed, a face of obvious honesty and translucent nobility.
Black trunks, gnarled, burled, rose up into twisted branches that held leaves just unfurled with spring.
He got an impression of butter-colored hair, shoulders burled with muscles, and a face under moonlight that was startlingly like their father’s.
He got an impression of butter-colored hair, shoulders burled with muscles, and a face under moonlight that was startlingly like their father's.
Althain's Warden therefore yielded nothing, his face clamped to folds like burled cypress.
The deep voice of assurance was male, and sure in the grain as burled oak.
The Grogs liked the butts of their weapons to be gnarled and burled and this one was no exception.
The Big Man's burled desk had nothing on the top except a lamp and a leather blotter.
The lightning bolt is destructive and terrifying, but it appears, after all, to be burled like a weapon and does the damage of a burled weapon-a fantastically violent one.
Trevelyan saw an oak branch snapped off and burled across the shivering room.
Another followed it, to be snatched up by a gravity beam and burled back at the sender.
Trevelyan saw an oak branch snapped off and burled across the shivering room.
Another followed it, to be snatched up by a gravity beam and burled back at the sender.
He raced up the ramp and through the massive stone archway cblivious to the shrieking, furious passengers he pummeled and left in his wake, unaware of the slaps and punches and body blocks burled at him, unconscious of the hands that ripped his clothing.
He raised his rigbt arm, the heavy, jagged fragment in his band, and lunged as be burled the heavy piece of marble at the wide expanse of gabardine between her shoulders, whipping his arm with all the force he could muster, sending the rock at enormous speed over the short distance.