Burrs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BURRS in dictionary:

VERB:
• BURR, to remove the rough edge from
• make a whirring sound.
• speak with a regional accent, especially one in which the letter r is prominent.
• form a rough edge on (metal).
NOUN:
• a whirring sound, such as a telephone ringing tone or the sound of cogs turning.
• a rough pronunciation of the letter r, especially with a uvular trill as in a Northumberland accent.
• (loosely) a regional accent
• a rough edge or ridge left on an object (especially of metal) by the action of a tool or machine.
• a small rotary cutting tool with a shaped end, used chiefly in woodworking and dentistry.
• a small surgical drill for making holes in bone, especially in the skull.
• a siliceous rock used for millstones.
• a whetstone.
• a prickly seed case or flower head that clings to clothing and animal fur.
• a plant that produces burrs, for example bur-reed.
• denoting wood containing knots or other growths which show a pattern of dense swirls in the grain when sawn, used for veneers and other decorative woodwork
• the coronet of a deer's antler.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to remove a rough edge from

Words related to BURRS

burr6 burred9 burring10

Words that contain BURRS

deburrs10 burrstone11 sandburrs12 burrstones12

How to use BURRS in a sentence

• Cranks attach themselves to any social movement, as a shaggy gown will gather burrs.
• The kind old man each morning comes here to weed the ground, He clears the shrine of thistles and burrs that grow around.
• Some people are like burrs, I think, or drops of quicksilver, that always bunch or run together.
• Burrs and one or two little twigs were clinging to them.
• My wood is taken to the mill from 12 to 15 feet long, and as large as the saw will cut by turning the stick, consequently the saw requires about the same power as the burrs.
• He wore cactus burrs in his tail and mane and had evidently traveled far.
• Also, he was very restless, tossing his arms about, making jerky, half-convulsive movements, and at times rolling his head from side to side in the burrs.
• She stood and looked long and curiously at the forbidding spectacle, and was about to turn back when the sleeper moved restlessly and rolled his hand among the burrs.
• Its coat was stuck full of burrs and it tried in vain to escape from its tormentors.
• First of all, Gabriel set to work to get out the burrs that stuck fast in the thick coat.
• The dark green foliage dotted here and there with the bright green burrs always attracts favorable attention and comment.
• Where seed is scarce, the burrs are sometimes planted in squares 3 feet apart each way, a limited number of burrs being dropped at one time.
• When thus planted, 1 bushel of burrs will plant several acres.
• Beattie of Starkville, Mississippi, is to first rake off the dead vines so as to leave the burrs on the ground and then sweep them together with a suitable wire or street broom.
• All around were chestnut trees, their burrs full of fruit.
• When the burrs were taken off and the effect of the doses from the long-necked bottle had died out, Bonfire looked anything but a ribbon-getter.
• As the wool grows on them, they would catch burrs and sharp, prickly things, which would pull the wool and sting the skin.
• In early morning after a sharp frost, the chestnut burrs opened and the nuts dropped out, falling and hiding among the leaves.
• The burrs were in the second story, and here the roaring of the mill took possession of all the shuddering air.
• As the two girls glanced around this grim space, they were startled by silence through the building, for the burrs ceased to work.
• The six had been chums at the Central Grammar School, and had stuck together like burrs through the freshman year at the Gridley High School.
• Clarke had evidently just returned from a tramp in the hills, for his garments were covered with burrs and his boots were dusty.
• How the frost has opened the burrs! He has done more than half their work for them already.
• One of the boys was sitting upon a bank trying to open some chestnut burrs which he had knocked off from the tree.
• A boy who was standing near the tree, with a red cap full of burrs in his hand, held out one of them.
• Who robbed the woods, The trusting woods? The unsuspecting trees Brought out their burrs and mosses His fantasy to please.
• The cares which once were easily shaken off stick to her like burrs, and she carries them to bed with her.
• On the march to the camp some of the cadets had picked up a number of burrs of fair size.
• He threw back the covers and dropped heavily upon the cot in just the spot where the sharpest of the burrs lay.
• So they gathered up their skirts and filled them with burrs and then helped each other back over the fence.

Similar words containing BURR without suffix s

burr6 burro7 burry10 burred9 burrel8 burrer8 burros8 burrow11 deburr9 burrata9 burrell9 burrels9 burrers9 burrhel12 burrier9 burring10 burrito9 burrows12 deburrs10 goburra10 saburra9 burramys15 burratas10 burrells10 burrfish16 burrhels13 burriest10 burritos10 burrowed14 burrower13 deburred12 goburras11 saburral10 saburras10 sandburr11 unburrow13 burrawang15 burrowers14 burrowing15 burrstone11 deburring13 sandburrs12 unburrows14 burramundi15 burramyses17 burrawangs16 burrfishes18 burrstones12 kookaburra20 unburrowed16 burramundis16 burrowstown19 kookaburras21 saburration13 unburrowing17 burrowstowns20 saburrations14

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