Adjective : burled lumber. From Dictionary.com.
He told me 'to burl out the beer, as he was in a hurry;' and I 'burled' out a glass and gave it to him. ". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
Girthe drew hys swerde, and cutte hys burled hyde. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
The faux burled-wood base embodies the craftsmanship. From Wordnik.com. [YesButNoButYes: A Bobble Beheading] Reference
I thought, clambering over the burled knots of a fallen tree. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
It's also got the most beautiful burled walnut trim I've ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [Maybach 57] Reference
He won't ever be able to find a burled wassen root like that one again. From Wordnik.com. [Temple of the Winds]
Trevelyan saw an oak branch snapped off and burled across the shivering room. From Wordnik.com. [Starways]
Between them was a table of burled walnut embossed with a double-headed eagle. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Madonna] Reference
His eyes fall back to the magazine, lying open on the burled wood coffee table. From Wordnik.com. [Today, I read Harper’s | clusterflock] Reference
The rifle was a bolt-action sporting model with a sight and a handsome burled stock. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
Radisson explains that he and his brother had really burled the goods across the river. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
Tufted sofas in buttery chestnut leather ... a mirrored armoire with burled walnut doors. From Wordnik.com. [Georgia Jeffries: Performance Art] Reference
I leaned heavily on the burled edge of the witness stand and looked down with a mournful sigh. From Wordnik.com. [Courting Trouble]
But, with an assist from a burled maple cane, the 85-year-old former President keeps up his pace. From Wordnik.com. [George H. W. Bush's Sporting Life] Reference
Of the charges being burled back and forth over the airwaves, we find Mr. Johnson's the more persuasive. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
Governor Norring did not get up from his padded leather chair behind his uncluttered burled walnut desk. From Wordnik.com. [CRUEL AND UNUSUAL] Reference
Its clean, minimalist dashboard is covered with a satin nickel finish, accented with glossy burled walnut. From Wordnik.com. [A Dash Of Style] Reference
Then those lovely existing burled wood side tables. From Wordnik.com. [RVABlogs] Reference
And let me not be burled 'neath the burden of the vine. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
The door is crafted from a variety of beautifully burled woods. From Wordnik.com. [The Barnstable Patriot] Reference
We have fine pieces in burled mahogany, quartersawn tiger oak, cherry, rock. From Wordnik.com. [craigslist | all for sale / wanted in boston] Reference
This circumstance, how - be burled within. the walls of a ever, is inconclusive. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:] Reference
As I examined a gorgous burled black walnut one, a tall hotel waiter stood behind me. From Wordnik.com. [el tercer ojo] Reference
Every few years, as one might say, the Auld Licht kirk gave way and burled its minister. From Wordnik.com. [Auld Licht Idylls] Reference
The result produces beautiful bowls and tables made from amboyna, a burled wood from Laos. From Wordnik.com. [Cool Hunting] Reference
An unused walnut log of burled fibre had been lying in the sun and drying for two years, since. From Wordnik.com. [The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln] Reference
But, with an assist from a burled maple cane, the 85-year-old former President keeps up his pace. rss. From Wordnik.com. [Forbes.com: News] Reference
COMFORT: Jaguar is known for its sumptuous old-English interiors, with leather and burled wood aplenty. From Wordnik.com. [Automotive Headlines] Reference
The hole still awaiting restoration in the very ornate coffered ceiling of a burled walnut oval dining room. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
"It is 'burled' first; then we get it.". From Wordnik.com. [Under Fire A Tale of New England Village Life] Reference
And let me not be burled ‘neath the burden of the vine. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The burled Dacyannes, who were ynne the same. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
I'll prove mie courage onne the burled greene. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
Strevynge fulle harde anenste a burled swayne. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
Gripes faste hys burled croke, and sore adradde. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
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