"Hog _Mawls_"

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:56 PM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> A burl (American English) or bur or burr (
>


> _used in all non-US-English speaking countries_
>


> ) is a tree growth in which the grain has grown
> in a deformed manner.
>

There's ya ranswer, rat thar: non-US.

BTW, an episode of "King of the Hill," the animated cartoon, is devoted to
a fruitless effort to acquire such a resource.

A "burr," OTOH, is just a weed.


-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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