The Collaborative International Dictionary
Burnie \Burn"ie\, n. [See 4th Burn.]
A small brook. [Scot.]
--Burns.
Wiktionary
n. (context Scotland English) A small brook.
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Burnie is the mascot of the Miami Heat, the NBA basketball team. Burnie is a rough, anthropomorphic depiction of the fireball featured on the team's logo.
Usage examples of "burnie".
She still liked to play Barbies, but she knew that her mom and dad bought them at the Toys R Us in Glen Burnie, and assembled the accoutrements on Christmas Eve, a process his father truly loved, much as he might bitch about it.
Crossing the vault, Vaylo made his way toward the effigy of the Dark King, Burnie Dhoone.
The boy was too young to be afraid of death and all its trappings, and was swinging from the effigy of the Dark King, Burnie Dhoone.
THE NEXT MURDER victim discovered was a thirty-six-year-old real estate agent in Glen Burnie, up Route Two near Baltimore.
As we cam' through the scented birks, we saw a trottin' burnie wimplin' `neath the white-blossomed slaes and hirplin' doon the hillside.
You get the burnies, and the scale, and if they don't kill you by doing it to you too much, then your nose falls off and your crotch rots and they throw you out on the street to beg.
In high school Maggie had not much liked him, but over the years he'd stayed on in the neighborhood and married a Glen Burnie girl and raised a family, and now she saw more of him than anyone else she'd grown up with.
Deputy Director Frank Shields had said when he met the Navy jet that had flown Pryce, Scofield, and Antonia to the airfield in Glen Burnie.