burin

See also: Burin

English

A burin (chisel) consisting of the handle, shaft, cutting tip and face.

burin on a blade

Etymology

From French burin.

Noun

burin (plural burins)

1. A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver.
   • 2006, Stefan Zweig, Chess, translated by Anthea Bell, London: Penguin,

     I kept staring at the same wallpaper on the same wall; I stared at it so often that every line of its zigzag pattern has etched itself on the innermost folds of my brain as if with an engraver’s burin.

2. A prehistoric flint tool

Derived terms

• burination
• burinate

Translations

chisel

• Catalan: burí (ca) m
• Finnish: kaiverrin
• Galician: buril (gl) m
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• Irish: bior greanta m
• Italian: bulino (it) m
• Russian: резе́ц гравёра m (rezéc gravjóra), грабштихель (ru) m (grabštixelʹ)

Further reading

• burin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Bruni, Rubin, bruin, rub in, rubin

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A-Pucikwar

Etymology

From Proto-Great Andamanese *burə/in

Noun

burin

1. hill
2. mountain

References

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 22 (2009)

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Aka-Kede

Etymology

From Proto-Great Andamanese *burə/in

Noun

burin

1. hill, mountain

References

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, p. 7

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian burino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by.ʁɛ̃/

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Noun

burin m (plural burins)

1. burin, graver

Derived terms

• buriner

Further reading

• burin on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “burin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• bruni