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Burin

//ˈbjʊər.ɪn// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Noun
  1. 1
    A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver.

    "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. 2
    a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point; used for engraving wordnet
  3. 3
    A prehistoric flint tool

Etymology

Etymology 1

Likely derived from Basque buru (“head”), referring here to a headland or promontory.

Etymology 2

From French burin. Doublet of boline.

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