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Burry

Burry \Burr"y\, a. Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
burry

mid-15c., "full of burs;" see bur + -y (2).

Wiktionary
burry

a. Abounding in burs.

WordNet
burry
  1. adj. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]

  2. [also: burriest, burrier]

Wikipedia
Burry

Burry is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Andrew George Burry (1873–1975), businessman, manufacturer and philanthropist
  • Burt Burry (born 1909), retired professional ice hockey player
  • Harold Burry (1912–1992), head football coach at Westminster College
  • Hugh Burry (1930–2013), New Zealand rugby union player
  • Lester Burry (1898–1977), United Church minister
  • Mark Burry (21st century), New Zealand architect
  • Michael Burry, American investment fund manager

Usage examples of "burry".

Ash Burry tells me that Fletcher is always toying with it - but it will never work again.

Mr Burry, that these are the times of the Anti-Christ, that men would wish they had never been born and that pestilence, plague and death would stalk the land?

I was a child, Mr Burry, my parents built a home for my brother and myself.

Only the ungodly need fear me, Mr Burry, or those who serve the ungodly.

And even now, Mr Burry, you sit here as the Judas goat and death is waiting as we speak.

Then all my dreams tumbled on themselves and I saw the Hellborn in their thousands riding south into River vale, and Ash Burry nailed to a tree.

In Burry, the barton was already five hands strong, and the yeoman marshal had relatives in three other villages.

And a man in Burry thought of putting the piece down where you might want no snow when the shelter was built.

He and Tam moved around the man from Burry, now struggling to sit up, and moved into position beside Gird.

Before I joined him at Burry Mills Hydro, I spent a night at Holmescroft.

I went straight from that house to Burry Mills Hydro, keen for the first time in my life on playing golf, which is guaranteed to occupy the mind.

Aleytys, the lapping power, the small burry fields of Shadith, the bones began to knit together as Aleytys held the bits in place, the torn flesh began to repair itself.

His master had told him to burry, so he dropped the bicycle, climbed behind the wheel of the car, gunned it into life, and spurted gravel in a wide arc as he slid the sports car out of the forecourt into the driveway.

There were swags of spruce, ropes of longleaf pine, loose branches of dense and burry fir, and a huge Delia Robbia-style wreath thick with berries and cones.