Dictionary Entry
burl
burl is a 4-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 7 senses
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- 1transitive verb
To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.
- 2noun
A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
- 3noun
An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.
- 4noun
soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- 5noun
a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree
- 6noun
the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer
- 7verb
remove the burls from cloth
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