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Bour vs Bur - What's the difference?

bour | bur |

As nouns the difference between bour and bur

is that bour is a chamber or a cottage while bur is a rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants.

bour

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A chamber or a cottage.
    • Ful sooty was hir bour, and eek hir halle,
    In which she eet ful many a sclendre meel.
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    bur

    English

    Alternative forms

    * burr

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rough, prickly husk around the seeds or fruit of some plants.
  • Any of several plants having such husks.
  • A rotary cutting implement having a selection of variously shaped heads.
  • (small piece of material)

    • Anagrams

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