: having a distorted grain due to burls

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Jason Mackey, brother to the late mushing icon Lance Mackey, was the last musher to cross under Nome’s burled arch Friday, bringing an end to this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Mar. 2023 From Chlöe Bailey in her sculpted AREA couture gown to SZA in her pink, burled wood grain Vivienne Westwood gown and signature wink. Essence, 5 May 2022 Backsplashes are dark burled wood; cabinets are black lacquer, and the island is solid black marble with white veins. Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 7 May 2021

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First Known Use

1924, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of burled was in 1924

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“Burled.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burled. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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