BURR

noun a triangular chisel.

2. burr ·noun a small circular saw.

3. burr ·noun the lobe or lap of the ear.

4. burr ·noun a prickly seed vessel. ·see bur, 1.

5. burr ·noun the lobe of the ear. ·see burr, ·noun, 5.

6. burr ·noun the sweetbread.

7. burr ·noun a clinker; a partially vitrified brick.

8. burr ·noun the round knob of an antler next to a deer's head.

9. burr ·noun a ring of iron on a lance or spear. ·see burr, ·noun, 4.

10. burr ·noun the knot at the bottom of an antler. ·see bur, ·noun, 8.

11. burr ·vi to speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.

12. burr ·noun a drill with a serrated head larger than the shank;

— used by dentists.

13. burr ·noun the thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. ·see burr, ·noun, 2.

14. burr ·noun a broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.

15. burr ·noun 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.

xvi. burr ·noun 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.

xvii. burr ·noun any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. also, any weed which bears burs.

xviii. burr ·noun 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, northumberland, or tweedside, burr.