burl

Meaning

1. A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot.
2. Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
3. A knot or lump in thread or cloth.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɝl/

From Middle English burle (“a knot or flaw in cloth”), from Old French bouril, bourril (“flocks or ends of threads which disfigure cloth”), from Old French bourre, from Medieval Latin burra (“flock of wool, coarse hair”).

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