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Meanings of burred in anglès

Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

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Usage of burred in anglès
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Then his stomach turned cold and his tongue grew thick and burred.
Aladdin O'Brien
2
BOING went the clock, a second time, and again everything burred.
A Tale of Time City
3
The bolt popped back suddenly, scraping her knuckles on burred iron.
The last page
4
Somewhere a cicada burred loudly and then unwound into silence.
IT
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It burred through the room and through their heads.
A Tale of Time City
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Against my chest, my discarded induction mike burred.
Broken angels
7
With his rifle still strapped across his back, he threw himself aside as its weapon burred again.
Zero Point
8
The phone burred twice, then Deke answered.
11/22/63
9
About ten thousand pounds of wool were sheared, burred, packed, marked, and perhaps shipped, in a day.
Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
10
The knife burred back into life.
Woken furies
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Use a small, light hammer, and gently tap round the edge of the bolt until it is burred over.
The Aeroplane Speaks
12
Shallow rectangular pockets of perforated nickel-steel were fitted in the holes and then burred over the framework by high pressures.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
13
The knife burred into life in my hand, vibrations backing up unpleasantly as far as the wound in my side.
Woken furies
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Father, I want permission to cut and carry a generous chestnut branch, burred, and full fruited, to the young woman.
Laddie: A True Blue Story
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Above all, he saw Naomi going before him in her shame, and at that sight his heart bled and his spirit burred.
The Scapegoat
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How he 'burred' and buzzed and droned!-tillby-and-by ,crawlingup the back of my head, he found an open space and sailed away.
The Amateur Poacher
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Burred through the time