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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
burr .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
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Examples
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The daily inspection should also reveal any defects such as burred, worn, or cracked parts.
FM 23-5: Chapter 5. - MAINTENANCE United States Army 1965
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The Conquhar was a swift, clear-running river coursing over its bed of gneiss, well tucked-in on either side by green hayfields, where the grasshopper for ever "burred," and the haymakers stopped with elbows on their rakes to watch the passer-by.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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The entire cat is burred and fuzzed under magnification.
Dead Deer Walking? 2009
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Set in Shrewsbury, where two years previously Farquhar himself had been a recruiting officer, it is a rural comedy with a whiff of chicken manure and burred accents rather than metropolitan cool about it.
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Swords sang tonight .... .or they would have, had they not been so burred and battered.
zornhau: Swords sang tonight... zornhau 2010
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The entire cat is burred and fuzzed under magnification.
Dead Deer Walking? 2009
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For while a decade of prosperity and rising property values burred the rough edges off of much of the nation and softened my old mean streets in places like Richmond, one cannot assume that gentrification is universal.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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For while a decade of prosperity and rising property values burred the rough edges off of much of the nation and softened my old mean streets in places like Richmond, one cannot assume that gentrification is universal.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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For while a decade of prosperity and rising property values burred the rough edges off of much of the nation and softened my old mean streets in places like Richmond, one cannot assume that gentrification is universal.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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Since her debut album in 2002, "Everything Seemed Alright," Ms. McBride has explored the terrain between country, folk and the blues, singing with a burred voice that situates her somewhere between Lucinda Williams and Melissa Etheridge.
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