| 单词 | burl |
| 例句 | The so-called Dutch elm disease entered the United States from Europe about 1930 in elm burl logs imported for the veneer industry. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The toy soldier lay facedown at the burled root of a butternut tree, as if he had pitched himself there in despair. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Stella, now nervously circling the burl of the wood grain at double speed, thought tonight could be the one when she wore a hole clear through it. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I say, fingering a burl in the wood. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Cora thought he had a mean face, like a burl sprouting from a squat, sweaty trunk. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I remember I bought an antique captain’s desk made of burled walnut. Barbra Streisand Can Hear Herself Again 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z The outdoor patio buzzes in summer, but winter draws loyal locals indoors to sip cinnamon-roll lattes around burl wood tables. Why wait? Avoid traffic with this guide for a day trip to Whidbey Island in winter. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z “The profile of the frame makes it look racy and fast, but you look inside and you see hand-sewn leather and burl,” he said. Charles Pollock, Designer of Popular Office Chair, Dies at 83 2013-08-25T01:40:30Z He still hikes into the wilderness to find volcanic rocks, gnarled burls, and the like. AD Chats with Alma Allen About His First Solo Gallery Show 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Moored on the side is half a lemon smeared with cranberry preserves under a burl of whipped cream. At Bohemian Spirit, the Meals of Czech Memory 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Above the wainscoting of book-matched burl and below the wedding-cake crown moldings, original fixtures ordered up by some long-dead insurance executive, hang framed photographs in black and white, one above another, gallery style. Restaurant Review: The Clocktower in Midtown South 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z But he found his passion when, in his 50s, he began doing sculpture, working primarily in burl wood and bronze. Tony Dow, the Big Brother on ‘Leave It to Beaver,’ Dies at 77 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z “Wit’s End” sometimes treats these devices the way Freud treated dream images: as supercharged particles, burls that mark the convergence of multiple trains of thought. How Wit Reveals the Trickster Beauty of Our Garbage World 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Hooks in the shape of bent human fingers probe the space around a chunk of burled birch in a creepy-funny wall-work by Eve Wood. Object lessons at Torrance Art Museum's 'Another Thing Coming' 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z The upside of the great pools of black-market cash is a countywide surfeit of good restaurants, galleries and craft boutiques, not all of which specialize in redwood burls or drums. T Magazine: The High Life 2011-03-25T17:30:04Z Ettore Sottsass, the Italian designer known for stacking colorful geometric forms, helped fill the Mediterranean Revival building with creamy marble tables, zigzag pattern rugs and burl wood bedsteads. Antiques: A Sotheby?s Catalog With Some Juicy Details 2011-02-24T22:29:12Z She ate out of a tree burl that she had hollowed into a bowl. How to Prepare Now for the Complete End of the World 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z The door serves as a little pause before the show, in this case, 14 leather chairs fronting a curved counter paved with burl wood and running the length of the space. Columbia Room review: The return of some of D.C.’s most prized liquid assets 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The meticulous animation has stop-motion’s characteristic haptic quality, so much so you can almost feel the character’s rough and smooth surfaces, the burl of his form as well as the grain. ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ Review: Puppets and Power 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z “We were told that war helmets were always, always made from a spruce burl,” he said. Carver explores Tlingit battle armor, weapons 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z In an especially impressive piece, a woman has curving branches for arms, and seems to erupt out of a large burl, like a goddess. Photography in the Raw 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z The knife sharpens easily, has a dark patina, a deep bolster and a beautiful if somewhat heavy handle of Oregon big leaf maple burl. An American-Forged Knife With Japanese Influences 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z “He never made another piece from burled wood, or another piece quite like it,” he added. Alexander Calder in 1941, at the Pace Gallery 2011-10-18T15:27:51Z But for Molesworth fans, he added, “The more burled it is, the more money it’s worth.” Antiques: Vintage Thomas Molesworth Furniture Heads to Auction 2013-09-05T20:00:56Z But, with an assist from a burled maple cane, the 85-year-old former President keeps up his pace. George H. W. Bush's Sporting Life 2010-03-25T21:40:00Z Its Art Deco gold murals, glass-backed bar, burled wood paneling and green velvet banquettes are the real deal: they were modeled on the décor of the liner. | Next Stop Glasgow 2012-04-20T15:09:12Z I also bought a burl wood side table with brass legs that is amazing, and I bought some office chairs — they might be Knoll. | Q&A: Flocks, Flecks and Flicks 2014-02-05T23:33:21Z Tables, headboards and chairs are trimmed in huge Douglas fir burls, and even the upholstery tacks are oversized. Antiques: Vintage Thomas Molesworth Furniture Heads to Auction 2013-09-05T20:00:56Z The winner is expected to drive their sled dog team down Nome’s Front Street to the iconic burled arch finish line in about 10 days. 33 Iditarod sled dog race mushers to trek across Alaska 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z Brent Sass won the race March 15 when he crossed under the famed burled arch finish line in Nome. Iditarod dog found months after disappearing from checkpoint 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Two ridges and two days beyond Akre, near the village Barzan, we met a pair of young shepherds in a valley of old burled trees and sparkling waterfalls. Building the First Long-Distance Hiking Trail in Kurdistan 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Reitan also extinguished the widow’s lamp on the burled arch that towers over the finish line, a tradition that means there are no other mushers on the trail. Iditarod ends as last musher crosses the finish line in Nome 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z The winner is expected under the burled arch finish line sometime next week. Iditarod mushers taking break at race’s halfway point 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The piece now sits beside a crescent-moon-shaped modular sofa, designed by Dries and upholstered in deep aubergine velvet, that like the floor is made from oak but in a more contemporary burled veneer. A Classic Parisian Apartment Filled With Modern Design 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Urban wood has a lot of character: streaks of color known as ambrosia; burl, which is essentially tree scar tissue; and birdseye, a distinctive pattern that looks like tiny, swirling eyes. Once a dump, Baltimore’s Camp Small transforms street trees into lumber 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Cabinets by Ross Day are Jatoba, from South America, and Western Tiger maple, with smaller accessories in walnut burl and teak. This forested home in Lake Forest Park is a (hands-on!) display of woods of the world 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z My grandfather, Amiya, framed in the eulogizing dignity of burled wood. Letter of Recommendation: Framing 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Of course, it features a dashboard of exotic Carpathian elm burl wood. Elizabeth Taylor’s ‘Green Goddess’ Rolls-Royce on the Auction Block 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z Crowds cheered and clapped as Kaiser came off the Bering Sea ice and mushed down Nome’s main street with a police escort to the famed burled arch finish line. Alaskan Native Pete Kaiser wins Iditarod sled dog race 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Crowds cheered and clapped as Kaiser came off the Bering Sea ice and mushed down Nome’s main street to the famed burled arch finish line. Alaskan Native Pete Kaiser wins Iditarod dog sled race 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z The winner is expected under the famous burled arch finish line in Nome, on Alaska’s western coast, in about nine days. The Latest: Iditarod takes mushers through Alaska wilderness 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Certain species, such as toyon and scrub oak, resprout from underground root systems or burls. Southern California's ecosystems evolved to survive fire. But not like this 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Lobby areas are trimmed in English burl wood and marble. Malaysia Seeks to Complete a $10 Billion Project Rocked by Scandal 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z The disease was eventually traced to elm burls for furniture-making that had been infected, the fungus unwittingly brought to the port of Baltimore from France. Centenarian elm falls in Seattle park, closing a chapter of history 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z He raised his arms slightly and squinted at them, a carpenter troubled by a burl in the wood. Silicon Valley’s Quest to Live Forever 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Those chips are piled high inside a beautifully carved bowl made from the burl of a tree. Carvers make canoes for trip to tribal house dedication 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z So too the phenomenal fit and finish and beauty of the stitching and burled wood veneers and the weight of the knobs and general feng shui of the interior. Offroading in the Bentley SUV that costs 12 Hondas 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Wood: The cabinet is made of Acacia burl veneers over Obeche wood. Starkville-built grandfather clock headed to Capitol 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Van Duyn says his creations reveal "the whole tree" and a record of its growth because the urns are crafted from solid wood blocks and burls, rather than from milled slices. Photos: See how artisanal urns are helping us personalize death in new -- and beautiful -- ways 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Twisted branches, burls and bark were sculpted into a dramatic banister on the log staircase in the great room, opposite a massive fireplace of Montana glacier stone covered in live lichen. A New Wave of Luxury Boathouses 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z He crossed under the burled arch finish line on Front Street at 8:22 a.m. Seaveys top Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race finishers 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z The winner is expected under the burled arch in Nome, a Bering Sea coastal town, in about 10 days. Iditarod show goes on despite lack of snow 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z For example, the dial of this watch features elm burl, the same hardwood found on the Bugatti’s dash. Five Swoon-Worthy Timepieces To Gift Him On Valentine's Day 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Poachers sometimes kill or injure redwoods when they cut off burls for use as decorative furniture. Douglas Island hunters discover giant spruce burl 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Sprouting from burls is the prevalent method of redwood propagation. Redwood poaching spreads to national forests 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Morrow was already being held in Humboldt County Jail on unrelated charges when he was booked on the burl banditry rap…. Arrests Made in Assault on Park Redwood Trees 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Investigators, meanwhile, are on the prowl at redwoods gift shops, and are urging consumers who purchase burl to make the extra effort to try to determine its source. Tree poachers are destroying California’s redwoods 2014-04-09T19:35:00Z The thieves who butchered this and other 1,000-year-old arboreal giants were after the burls, gnarly protrusions on the trees that are prized for their intricately patterned wood. Poachers Attack Beloved Elders of California, Its Redwoods 2014-04-09T01:13:19Z And far less than 1 percent of Sitka spruce grow burls. Douglas Island hunters discover giant spruce burl 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Two men recently were convicted in a case there after rangers tracked slabs cut from a tree by chain saw to a redwood burl shop. Redwood poaching spreads to national forests 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z A suspected redwood tree slasher and burl bandit was arrested after park officials tracked the wood poacher and an accomplice to a Del Norte County shop where they allegedly peddled the purloined lumber. Arrests Made in Assault on Park Redwood Trees 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z But identifying illegally acquired burls is a challenge, as is convincing thieves to leave the trees alone. Tree poachers are destroying California’s redwoods 2014-04-09T19:35:00Z The most recent episode, discovered in February, involved 21 burls cut from four trees in the park’s northernmost reaches. Poachers Attack Beloved Elders of California, Its Redwoods 2014-04-09T01:13:19Z The Iditarod banner was hung over the finish line, the famous burled arch. Alaska racers King, Zirkle fight for Iditarod lead 2014-03-10T22:31:11Z Early Sunday morning, the famed burled arch marking the finish line was moved by bulldozer from a city parking lot to its yearly spot on Front Street. King Leads Super Tight Iditarod Race in Alaska 2014-03-10T03:41:51Z Earlier this year I wrote about a spate of criminal assaults on redwood trees in a California park — all targeting the bulbous growths called burls that are prized by woodworkers and furniture makers. Arrests Made in Assault on Park Redwood Trees 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Their target: the trees’ burls, ”gnarly protrusions … that are prized for their intricately patterned wood.” Tree poachers are destroying California’s redwoods 2014-04-09T19:35:00Z Mr. Buck — who looks every bit the burl dealer, with his wool cap and even woollier beard — bought half a million pounds of redwood burls last year and is a presence on eBay. Poachers Attack Beloved Elders of California, Its Redwoods 2014-04-09T01:13:19Z The rippled rings on the right are part of a burl—an abnormal growth possibly created by some kind of infection. Tree Rings Tell a Tale of Climates Past (preview) 2013-05-30T12:15:00.183Z Nearby, a six-foot sculpture of a humpback whale leapt from a knotty burl of hardwood. Craig Venter’s Bugs Might Save the World 2012-05-30T15:30:01Z NOME, Alaska — Mushers always pose with their lead dogs under the burled arch in Nome, Alaska, after winning the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Dallas Seavey is youngest musher to win Iditarod 2012-03-14T11:23:17Z There is a subsequent process called burling, at which females are constantly employed. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z A knobby burl creates a humpback and an elbowed branch seems to flex its muscle. City Room: A Ghostly Architecture of Naked Trees 2011-12-09T17:30:46Z Across the street nearby, the famed big burled arch that marks the Iditarod finish line was unscathed. Hardy Alaskans use ingenuity and native traditions to cope with hurricane-strength storm 2011-11-11T23:32:58Z Last but not least of the products of the ash tree are the curious and beautiful contortions of the grain found in "burls" on the trunks of old trees of many species. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Baker left his sled and walked to the front of his team, took the dog by its harness and led it under Nome's famed burled arch. Musher John Baker wins Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in record time 2011-03-16T04:18:04Z "On behalf of the city of Nome, congratulations on coming to the burled arch first." First Alaska Native wins Iditarod since 1976 2011-03-15T23:42:27Z When such crookedness is fine and the fibers are contorted and, as it were, crowded out of place, as is common in and near the roots of trees, the effect is called "burl," Fig. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z The gleaming walnut burl stock was sculpted from an 800-year-old Turkish tree. Guns as Fine Art 2010-07-29T21:00:00Z In the pause of the thunder rolling low, A rifle's answer—who shall know From the wind's fierce burl and the rain's blackblow? The Garden of Dreams I could not rest in my grave, though they burled me fathoms deep, if you ever called another—wife! Pretty Madcap Dorothy Or, How She Won a Lover He had tied these handkerchiefs together in such a way that they would burn, and after setting fire to them, had burled the blazing mass into the house. Among the Brigands The term burl is also used to designate knots and knobs on tree trunks, Fig. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z "It is 'burled' first; then we get it." Under Fire A Tale of New England Village Life The better grades are also used for furniture and cabinet work, and the "burls" found on this species are highly valued for making fancy articles, gavels, etc. Seasoning of Wood This is called burling and is the first process of finishing. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades The fine, the fingering beams Their young delightful hour do feature down That fleeted else like day-dissolvèd dreams Or ringlet-race on burling Barrow brown. Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published Appearance of Wood: Color, dark brown, sap-wood light; ring-porous; rings, well defined; grain, straight, burls often form highly prized veneers; rays, numerous and thin. Wood and Forest 2011-03-01T03:00:42.647Z She 's been a secret these five year; stuck t' her tighter 'n' Erne Moore holds th' gals down t' Pickanock dances, 'n' that 's closer 'n' a burl on a birch. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Radisson explains that he and his brother had really burled the goods across the river. French Pathfinders in North America The goods are finished by being burled, sheared, washed, singed, dyed, rinsed, dried, and pressed, care being taken not to press too hard. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades Every few years, as one might say, the Auld Licht kirk gave way and burled its minister. Auld Licht Idylls You see," said Lafe, in explaining the matter afterward, "I was hunting for burls. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Who they were, and what they said to me, are matters which shall be burled in the deepest pit of oblivion I can find or dig. Branded Beautiful veneers have come from the burl walnut, being formed by protuberances on the trunks of the trees near the surface of the ground. Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin It should be premised that the walnut work of the day bears upon its surface, to a greater or less extent, raised panels covered with French burl veneer. French Polishing and Enamelling A Practical Work of Instruction With a snarl of glee Gaston burled himself upon the prostrate body of the second submarine boy, pounding him furiously. The Submarine Boys and the Spies Dodging the Sharks of the Deep It was while I was tramping around that I got into a hardwood swamp where I saw them burls, not knowing what they were at the time. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle There should be a new life in the new world, and the humiliation and disgrace of the past should be so deeply burled that it could never be resurrected. Branded A spurt of smoke entered at one of the holes, and a bullet burled itself in the opposite wall. The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky Shell after shell was burled at the Light Horse; none of them were hit, and not having bothered bringing artillery with them, they were unable to retaliate. The Siege of Kimberley See knob. knot, n. entanglement, snarl, intricacy, complication; cluster, group, band, bevy, gang, company; joint, node, knag, burl, gnarl, knob, nodule, nodosity; tuft, bunch. knot, v. entangle, tie, snarl. Putnam's Word Book Crouching lower and lower at Isabella's feet, her face half burled in her robe, Marie's reply was scarcely audible; but the Queen's brow contracted. The Vale of Cedars Centrifugal force burled the particles of the nebulous center toward the crust as rapidly as they approached a solid state. At the Earth's Core "I don't say that I could afford to buy burl maple, walnut, and cherry for wood-work," said the Harvester. The Harvester They tak', say, for instance, a burl maple—bird's eye they call it in the factory, because it's full o' wee knots and twists that look like the eye of a bird. Freckles He did not turn out but rushed straight at them, rather glad to have something to burl aside in his blind anger, nor did he notice that one was a woman. The Perils of Pauline The section of burl was gone, and this argued that the question of spite had been purely a matter of secondary consideration. The Valley of the Giants The "body Brussels" carpet was worn, the wall paper depressing, the woodwork was painted dark brown, with an imitation burl smeared in by the painter's thumb. Mother But an arm burls them back with a giant's strength. Mohammed Ali and His House What Bryce could not understand, however, was the stupid brutality of the raiders in felling the tree merely for that section of burl. The Valley of the Giants This was the burl, so prized for table-tops and panelling because of the fact that the twisted, wavy, helter-skelter grain lends to the wood an extraordinary beauty when polished. The Valley of the Giants Those panels are positively the largest and most beautiful specimens of redwood burl ever turned out in this country. The Valley of the Giants You know why, of course—those burl panels in your dining room. The Valley of the Giants The grain is not merely wavy; it is not merely curly; it is actually so contrary that you have here, Colonel Pennington, a room absolutely unique, in that it is formed of bird's- eye burl. The Valley of the Giants "I know of but one tree in Humboldt County that could have produced such beautiful burl." The Valley of the Giants I want to ascertain from him where he procured this burl. The Valley of the Giants |
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