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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
burton
noun
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▪ He didn't exactly scream but his blow-wave went for a burton.
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Burton

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.

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burton

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.

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Burton, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 11
Housing Units (2000): 4
Land area (2000): 0.107238 sq. miles (0.277744 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.107238 sq. miles (0.277744 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07310
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.911358 N, 99.590992 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Burton, NE
Burton
Burton, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
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 (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.471584 N, 81.146888 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44021
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Headwords:
Burton, OH
Burton
Burton, SC -- U.S. Census Designated Place in South Carolina
Population (2000): 7180
Housing Units (2000): 2690
Land area (2000): 11.035025 sq. miles (28.580583 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.106334 sq. miles (0.275403 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.141359 sq. miles (28.855986 sq. km)
FIPS code: 10360
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 32.425362 N, 80.738213 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29902
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Headwords:
Burton, SC
Burton
Burton, TX -- U.S. town in Texas
Population (2000): 359
Housing Units (2000): 194
Land area (2000): 1.189767 sq. miles (3.081482 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.189767 sq. miles (3.081482 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11536
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 30.181668 N, 96.596178 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 77835
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Headwords:
Burton, TX
Burton
Burton, MI -- U.S. city in Michigan
Population (2000): 30308
Housing Units (2000): 12348
Land area (2000): 23.471745 sq. miles (60.791539 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 23.471745 sq. miles (60.791539 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12060
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 42.991027 N, 83.635402 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
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Burton
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Burton may refer to:

Burton (car)

The Burton is a Dutch sports car based on French 2CV technology. The Burton is an open, nostalgic-looking sports car built on the chassis of the 2CV with a modern glassfibre bodykit. The car can be built as an open two seater, or with a hardtop with gull-wing doors or with a custom made convertible roof. From the beginning of 2002 the Burton is available all over Europe.

Late 1998, Iwan and Dimitri Goebel started to design the Burton, then codenamed 'Hunter'. They were inspired by legendary sports cars, such as Bugatti, Jaguar, Talbot-Lago, Delahaye and Alfa Romeo. After 18 months, the prototype was ready and on February 9, 2000, the first body was taken from the mold. In May 2000, the Burton was introduced to the Dutch audience.

Burton also imports and sells the Lomax.

Burton (UK Parliament constituency)

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.

Burton (retailer)

Burton is a large United Kingdom high street clothing retailer. The company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, but is now a trading name of Arcadia Group Brands Ltd, part of the Arcadia Group. There are over 400 stores in the UK and Republic of Ireland. It has also expanded to branches at out of town sites since the 1980s, such as at the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in the West Midlands, where it has had a store since November 1989.

Burton (musician)

Janne Johannes Puurtinen (born 17 October 1974), better known as Burton or Emerson Burton, is a Finnish musician. He is best known as the keyboardist of the Finnish rock band HIM, with whom he has released several gold and platinum albums. Outside of HIM, he has played in various band's including Suburban Tribe, Daniel Lioneye and Amorphis.

Burton (nut)

'Burton' is a cultivar of hican (nut or tree), a cross between hickory and pecan, species of the genus Carya. The Burton is an edible nut of the hicans; it is considered a shagbark (smaller nuts, higher yielding). Hicans can be both edible or inedible, if the nut is larger but the tree produces far less than a shagbark they are considered shellbarks. A seedling from 'Burton' is commonly called a 'Dooley Burton' it is also an edible hican nut. Burton and Dooley Burton nuts have a unique, yet very pleasing hickory flavor indicative to hickory trees. Of the two Dooley Burton seedlings produce a more noticeable hickory-flavored nut. Hickory-pecan hybrids are often unproductive.

Burton (name)

Burton is a surname that has its origin in towns in England.

Burton (crater)

Burton Crater is an impact crater in the Memnonia quadrangle of Mars, located at 14.1°S latitude and 156.4°W longitude. It is 123.0 km in diameter and was named after Charles E. Burton, and the name was approved in 1973.

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.