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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 burl /ˈbɝ(ə)l/
 節,樹節,瘤(vt.)去掉節

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Burl v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burled p. pr. & vb. n. Burling.]  To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth.
 Burling iron, a peculiar kind of nippers or tweezers used in burling woolen cloth.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Burl, n.
 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 burl
      n 1: the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used
           decoratively in veneer
      2: a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree
      3: soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or
         created by design [syn: slub, knot]
      v : remove the burls from cloth