burled
/burld/US // bɜrld //
有毛刺的,带毛刺的,埋头苦干,埋头苦干的
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : having burls that produce a distorted grain: burled lumber.
Examples
I could not rest in my grave, though they burled me fathoms deep, if you ever called another—wife!
A spurt of smoke entered at one of the holes, and a bullet burled itself in the opposite wall.
Every few years, as one might say, the Auld Licht kirk gave way and burled its minister.
There is nothing that has a more vulgar look than an overdone imitation of burled walnut.
Not so with burled walnut or root walnut of either the European or the American varieties.
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