Synonyms:
bur, burr
Meaning: seed vessel having hooks or prickles
Synonyms:
burr
Meaning: rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
bur, burr
Meaning: remove the burrs from
Usage examples
You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it.
A little more sunshine to ripen the nut, then, not a boy's impatient shake, but a man's hand reached up to pick it gently from the burr, and find the kernal sound and sweet.
King had recently come from Massachusetts, and Hamilton's insistence that he should be chosen caused a breach with the Livingstons, which contributed to the defeat of Schuyler two years later and the election of Aaron Burr.