Definitions for burins

burins bu·rin

Spelling: [byoo r-in, bur-]
IPA: /ˈbyʊər ɪn, ˈbɜr-/

Burins is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in burins (binrsu).

Definitions for burins

noun

  1. a tempered steel rod, with a lozenge-shaped point and a rounded handle, used for engraving furrows in metal.
  2. a similar tool used by marble workers.
  3. a prehistoric pointed or chisellike flint tool.

Origin of burins

1655-65; French Italian burino (now bulino) graving tool, equivalent to bur- (perhaps Germanic; see bore2) + -ino -ine2

Examples for burins

She learned to handle the burin, and succeeded in this as in every thing else.

Many artists attempted to fix that glance and that smile with pencil or burin, but how few were successful!

Towards the close of his life Audran laid by the burin for the pen.

Passing from the bloom of Nature, we complete our circuit with that which springs from the pencil, the chisel and the burin.

Meanwhile, residents of Bracha settlement attacked burin village, throwing Molotov cocktails at Bashir al-Zein's home.

It is but the expedient of those who cannot etch sensation by the burin of their art of words.

burin was a pretty spot, and I saw it better on my return when there was no fog.

Aretino is an improvvisatore, clever with the pen he uses like a burin.

Just a little cross-hatching, a little rough spluttering work with the burin, and we have this bit of marvellous irony.

Rembrandt's general use of the burin has been widely accepted.

Word Value for burins
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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