Definitions for burs

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burs bur

Spelling: [bur]

IPA: /bɜr/

Burs is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in burs (brsu).

Definitions for burs

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. burr2 .
8. Also, buhr. a protruding, ragged edge raised on the surface of metal during drilling, shearing, punching, or engraving.
9. a rough or irregular protuberance on any object, as on a tree.
10. a small, handheld, power-driven milling cutter, used by machinists and die makers for deepening, widening, or undercutting small recesses.
11. a lump of brick fused or warped in firing.
12. a washer placed at the head of a rivet.
13. a blank punched out of a piece of sheet metal.

verb (used with object)

1. to extract or remove burs from.
2. to form a rough point or edge on.
3. deburr.

Origin of burs

1300-50; Middle English burre, apparently cognate with Danish burre, Norwegian, Swedish borre bur

Examples for burs

A person earning 10 dollars a week can see a 100% increase by getting a raise to 20 bucks a week—bur remains impoverished.

Eli's been drunk some, bur his girls are really a good deal of help.

If the coating has spiny hairs, as in the Chestnut and Beechnut, the whole is a bur.

If the bolt is too large for a bur, an iron washer may be used.

In most of its range it is associated with the bur oak from which it is not commonly separated.

Ymir was the father of the first giant, bur had a son called Br.

I'll do ellythik you like in reasol, M'ria—(hic)—bur I won't come 'ome.

Now Gudruda could bear his words no longer, bur ran to him and knelt beside him.

The shearing-off of the bur is a source of great danger to the workmen.

At what time there was a report the bishops would have him burn't for a heretique.