Meaning of burr in English

Examples of burr

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They survive as a steady current in the idiom (a political commentator referred recently to 'a couple of burrs under the economic saddle').
Largeerrors can be generated if the hole has burrs, rounded edges or other imperfections, but even when the hole is near-perfect a residual error remains.
Under the microscope, he saw how tiny hooks on the ends of the burrs caught in loops in the wool.
The burrs were then reduced by hand polishing to 0.0001, 0.0004 and 0.0009 in. height, respectively, and the procedure repeated.
The test section was then split, and the appropriate drill shank inserted into each hole from the inside wall position to remove the internal burrs.
The fallen burrs entangled a number of hoppers, and many were impaled by burrs still attached to the grass ; the impalement of hoppers usually occurred during the periods of ecdysis.
In case that the burr is not removed completely, the uncut depth is incorporated into the desired trajectory for compensation.
With death having silenced his rebuking voice, there was little to remind people what a burr in their sides he had been.
If the specified burr height is low, an additional shaving operation is required to shave away the excessive burr height produced by the piercing operation.
The direction of the piercing operation will be same as the burr-side the burr-side is the additional design specification input by the user during the feature-modelling phase!.
In that case a lathe setter was removing burring in the central hole of a petrol filler cap which he was manufacturing.
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Such occasional difficulty as may be experienced is probably due to absolutely new coins with slight burrs which wear off after a very little use.
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Burrs are a rotary analog to files that cut linearly (hence their alternate name, rotary files).
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Burrs are produced on the side of the workpiece that is against the die.
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Honing and visual inspection were repeated until all the holes appeared t o be free from burrs.
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