burl

burl has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• v. t.. To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.
• n.. A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
• n.. An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.
• n.. soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
• n.. a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree
• n.. the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer
• v.. remove the burls from cloth