Definitions for burred

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Spelling: [burd]

IPA: /bɜrd/

Burred is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in burred (bderru).

Definitions for burred

noun

1. a rough, prickly case around the seeds of certain plants, as the chestnut or burdock.
2. any bur-bearing plant.
3. something that adheres like a bur.
4. Machinery. burr1 (defs 1, 3).
5. Dentistry. a rotary cutting tool usually of steel or other hard metal shaped into a shank and a head, for removing carious material from teeth and preparing cavities for filling.
6. Surgery. a cutting tool resembling that of a dentist, used for the excavation of bone.
7. Also, buhr. a protruding, ragged edge raised on the surface of metal during drilling, shearing, punching, or engraving.
8. a rough or irregular protuberance on any object, as on a tree.
9. a small, handheld, power-driven milling cutter, used by machinists and die makers for deepening, widening, or undercutting small recesses.
10. a lump of brick fused or warped in firing.
11. a pronunciation of the r- sound as a uvular trill, as in certain Northern English dialects.
12. a pronunciation of the r- sound as an alveolar flap or trill, as in Scottish English.
13. any pronunciation popularly considered rough or nonurban.
14. a whirring noise.

adjective

1. prickly or rough in texture.
2. having a bur or burs.

verb (used with object)

1. to extract or remove burs from.
2. to form a rough point or edge on.
3. deburr.
4. to pronounce (words, sounds, etc.) with a burr.

verb (used without object)

1. to speak with a burr.
2. to speak roughly, indistinctly, or inarticulately.
3. to make a whirring sound.

Origin of burred

First recorded in 1905-10; bur¹ + -ed²

Examples for burred

They were rough-looking men, and they spoke in the burred Saxon-English of Warwickshire five hundred years ago.

There was a deep note of loving them in his voice, rough and burred though it was, as Potch spoke to the goats.

Use a small, light hammer, and gently tap round the edge of the bolt until it is burred over.

It might be a human voice, though there was a burred and thickened quality to it almost like a burros bray.

Then his stomach turned cold and his tongue grew thick and burred.

He winked them indignantly, strove to clear his burred throat.

Either way will prevent splintering or a ragged or "burred" edge, where the bit leaves the wood.