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Burg vs Burl - What's the difference?

burg | burl |

As nouns the difference between burg and burl

is that burg is (north america) a city or town while burl is a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner.

As a verb burl is

to remove the knots in cloth.

burg

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (North America) A city or town.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1921 , year_published=2012 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Efficiency Expert , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Tell mother that I will write her in a day or two, probably from Chicago, as I have always had an idea that that was one burg where I could make good. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , date= , year=2009 , month=June , first=David , last=Thriault , author= , coauthors= , title=This Way In: The Sound and the Fury , volume=151 , issue=6 , page=6 , magazine=Esquire , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=Imagine my surprise when I learned that he was not only a Canadian but lived in Ottawa, that icy burg I had left so many kilometers -- sorry, miles -- behind me. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , date= , year=2010 , month=Feb , first=Paige , last=Orloff , author= , coauthors= , title=Big Style on a (Little) Budget , volume=33 , issue=2 , page=84 , magazine=Country Living , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=It's been said that Wilder modeled that fictional setting on Peterborough, a quaint burg tucked away in New Hampshire's verdant southwestern hills. }}
  • (historical) A fortified town in medieval Europe.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    burl

    English

    Alternative forms

    * burr (UK)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner.
  • Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
  • A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the knots in cloth.
  • Anagrams

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