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Northumberland burr

Burr \Burr\ (b[^u]r), n. [See Bur.] (Bot.)

  1. A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1.

  2. The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting.

    The graver, in plowing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs.
    --Tomlinson.

  3. A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.

  4. A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.

  5. The lobe or lap of the ear.

  6. [Probably of imitative origin.] A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle burr, Northumberland burr, or Tweedside burr.

  7. The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n.,