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Burro [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Burrock [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A small wier or dam where wheels are laid in a river, for catching fish.

Burrock [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed.

Burrow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A different orthography of burgh, borough, which see.

2. A hollow place in the earth or in a warren, where small animals lodge, and sometimes deposit their provisions. Some animals excavate the earth, by scratching, and form these lodges.

Burrow [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as coneys or rabbits. In a more general sense, to lodge in any deep or concealed place. The word seems to include the idea of excavating a hole for a lodge, as well as lodging in it; but the verb is not often used transitively, as to burrow the earth.

Burrow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An incorporated town. See 1st Borough.

2. A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation.

3. A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.

4. A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5.

Burrow [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.

2. To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide.

Burrowed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Burrower [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it.

Burrowing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Lodging in a burrow.

Burrowing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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