burr-like

The "Rapex" device is inserted into the vagina by a woman who feels she is at risk of rape, and if she is attacked, small burr-like teeth will attach themselves to the tip of the rapist's erect penis, explained inventor Sonette Ehlers.

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Bestowed upon him in callow college days, it had stuck burr-like for many a weary year.

The Brass Bowl Louis Joseph Vance 1906

It's the irritating, burr-like amendments that one rages against.

A Splendid Hazard Harold MacGrath 1901

If the old woman had not had a burr-like nature, how different everything would have been!

Invisible Links Selma Lagerl��f 1899

The guns in the rear, aroused and enraged by shells that had been thrown burr-like at them, suddenly involved themselves in a hideous altercation with another band of guns.

The Red Badge of Courage 1895

Reverend Homer was a burr-like man with a life-work.

Options O. Henry 1886

But this grim, abject, specious, subservient, burr-like wreck of a man would not be shaken off.

Options O. Henry 1886

The guns in the rear, aroused and enraged by shells that had been thrown burr-like at them, suddenly involved themselves in a hideous altercation with another band of guns.

The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885

There was such a rough, burr-like sound in his speech that I at once concluded he was a foreigner, or hailed from some Oriental district corresponding to our Durham or Northumberland.

The Purple Land 1881

Now was the critical time, for as he went down he could see that the cabin-door was shut, and hear the dull burr, burr, burr-like murmur of the captain's voice talking to his son.

Fitz the Filibuster George Manville Fenn 1870