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say it: burl
burl is a noun and verb meaning "the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer". It carries 4 recorded senses.
the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer
a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree
soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
remove the burls from cloth
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for burl come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.