1. A knot, lump, or slub in yarn or cloth.
2. A large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree.
3. the wood cut from such an outgrowth, often used decoratively as a veneer.
4. to dress or finish (cloth) by removing knots, lumps, slubs, or loose threads.

1. A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner.
2. wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
3. A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
4. to remove the knots in cloth.

1. A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
2. an overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.
3. to dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.

1. to pick knots, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth; specifically, to pick (wool) by hand.
2. to cleanse (cloth), as with fullers' earth or a similar substance.
3. to welter.
4. same as birl.
5. A small knot or lump in thread, whether woven into cloth or not.
6. A knot or an excrescence on walnut and other trees, used for ornamental veneering.
7. A pimple.

1. remove the burls from cloth
2. soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
3. a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree
4. the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer