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Definitions for Buhr

[1] burr1(def 1) .
[2] burr4.
[3] burstone.
[4] burstone.
[5] Aaron . 1756–1836, US vice-president (1800–04), who fled after killing a political rival in a duel and plotted to create an independent empire in the western US; acquitted (1807) of treason
[6] a small power-driven hand-operated rotary file, esp for removing burrs or for machining recesses
[7] a rough edge left on a workpiece after cutting, drilling, etc
[8] a rough or irregular protuberance, such as a burl on a tree
[9] British a burl on the trunk or root of a tree, sliced across for use as decorative veneer
[10] a variant spelling of bur
[11] to form a rough edge on (a workpiece)
[12] to remove burrs from (a workpiece) by grinding, filing, etc; deburr
[13] phonetics an articulation of (r) characteristic of certain English dialects, esp the uvular fricative trill of Northumberland or the retroflex r of the West of England
[14] a whirring sound
[15] to pronounce (words) with a burr
[16] to make a whirring sound
[17] a washer fitting around the end of a rivet
[18] a blank punched out of sheet metal
[19] short for buhrstone
[20] a mass of hard siliceous rock surrounded by softer rock

Words nearby Buhr

bugong, bugout, bugs, bugsha, buhl, buhr, buhrstone, bui, buibui, build, build down

Origin of Buhr

rr41250–1300; Middle English burre, probably so called from its roughness

Word origin for Buhr

rrC18: probably from bur , from its qualities of roughness