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burr
burr is a 4-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 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 8 · 24 senses
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- 1noun
Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.
- 2noun
The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr., 2.
- 3noun
A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr., 4.
- 4noun
The lobe of the ear. See Burr., 5.
- 5noun
The sweetbread.
- 6noun
A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.
- 7noun
A small circular saw.
- 8noun
A triangular chisel.
- 9noun
A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.
- 10noun
The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head.
- 11noun
A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1.
- 12noun
The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting.
- 13noun
A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
- 14noun
A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.
- 15noun
The lobe or lap of the ear.
- 16noun
A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.
- 17noun
The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur., 8.
- 18intransitive verb
To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.
- 19noun
small bit used in dentistry or surgery
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- 20noun
rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting
- 21noun
rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece
- 22noun
United States politician who served as vice president under Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south (1756-1836)
- 23noun
seed vessel having hooks or prickles
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- 24verb
remove the burrs from
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