burrs

The burrs were the ripe August product, as hard as filberts, and bristling with spines as tough and sharp as needles.

Cabbages and Kings 1904

The burrs were the ripe August product, as hard as filberts, and bristling with spines as tough and sharp as needles.

Cabbages and Kings O. Henry 1886

Make an incision exactly on the top of the head, running from the back of the neck to just behind the horns; then make two cross cuts up to their seats or "burrs," and, pushing your knife down at the side of the nearest horn, cut the skin entirely away, keeping as close to the horn as possible -- in fact, shaving its edge.

Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. Montagu Browne

The edge also, after two or three armings, "burrs" a little, and thus provides a clearance naturally.

On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall

But with those out of the way chaps and chapesses, we hope to hear some West Country 'burrs' at the Saturday evening social!

The British National Party 2009

"uovoli of the olive" and the "burrs" that are formed on some varieties of apple, from which both roots and leaf-shoots are produced in abundance.

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

As Hergé re-drew and re-worked his books in the 1940s—eventually, from 1950 onward, with the help of the assistants of "Studios Hergé"—he smoothed away many such burrs.

Tintin & Co. Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011

I had to stop and pull the burrs from both my feet.

Eliza’s Freedom Road Jerdine Nolen 2011

Eir looked at the blades, burrs rising from their ruined edges.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

Eir looked at the blades, burrs rising from their ruined edges.

GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011