Usually means: Wood growth; dense, knotty, decorative.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word burl:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. burl: Merriam-Webster
  2. burl, burl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. burl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. burl: Collins English Dictionary
  5. burl: Vocabulary.com
  6. Burl, burl: Wordnik
  7. Burl, burl: Wiktionary
  8. burl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. burl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. burl: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. burl: Dictionary.com
  12. Burl (EP), Burl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Burl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. burl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. burl: Rhymezone
  16. Burl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. burl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. burl: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. burl: FreeDictionary.org
  20. burl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. burl: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. burl: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. BURL: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. burl, burl: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Burl: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Woodworking Terms (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot.
noun:  Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
noun:  A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
verb:  To remove the knots in cloth.
noun:  A surname.

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