Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA 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. · Alternative form of burr (“small piece of material”).
From Middle English burre, of unknown origin but probably from North Germanic (Scandinavian) source or from Old English byrst (“bristle”). See also burr. Compare English bristle, Danish burre (“bur, burdock”), Norwegian borre, Swedish borre, and Old Norse burst (“bristle”).
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