Definition of Burrer

1. one that burrs [n -S] - See also: burrs

Lexicographical Neighbors of Burrer

burr-headed
burr cell
burr drill
burr marigold
burr oak
burra-khana
burrata
burrawong
burred
burrel
burrel fly
burrel shot
burrell
burrells
burrels
burrer (current term)
burrers
burrfish
burrhel
burrhels
burrier
burriest
burring
burring machine
burrito
burritolike
burritos
burrlike
burro
burro deer

Literary usage of Burrer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Department Reports of the State of Ohio: Containing the Decisions, Opinions (1922)
"2489—In the Matter of the Joint Application of GJ burrer and Sons, a Partnership, Operating Under the Firm Name of the Sunbury Electric Light Plant ..."

2. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"Wob., No. 48. ; excluding from each the foreign synonymes. (burrer. ... (burrer.) There are plants at Henfield. 1340 Variety. In what seems a variety of ..."

3. The Temperance Tales by Lucius Manlius Sargent (1856)
"replied the butcher; " ifax, you see if I don't get him into his burrer, ... ye han't got the old fox into the burrer this time, nor ye an't like to, ..."

4. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State library, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania State Library (1914)
"... Stephen, 6th S., VIII, 669. burrer, Margretha, 6th S., VI, 238. burrer, Margretta, 6th S., VI, 212. Burros, John, 6th S., IIl, 1196. ..."

5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1859)
"As the wool passes these it meets the " burrer," a cylinder of about six inches in diameter, composed of steel rings slid upon a shaft. ..."

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