Noun

(en noun)

(North America) A city or town.

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, 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. }}

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, 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. }}

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, 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.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of stealing property.