And there kyng Arthur smote syr mordred vnder the shelde wyth a foyne of his spere thorughoute the body more than a fadom / And whan syr Mordred felte that he had hys dethes wounde / He thryst hym self wyth the myght that he had vp to thebur of kynge Arthurs spere / And right so he smote his fader Arthur wyth his swerde holden in bothe his handes
The front of it was defended by an iron-plate, called a vam-plat, that is, an avant-plate, and behind it was a broad iron ring, called aburr.
2003, Thomas Howard Crofts,Fifteenth-century Malory, page290:
We are made to witness a cathartic shuffling-off of mortalities and of hatreds: Mordred's pulling himself up to the 'burr' of Arthur's spear is Malory's own detail and one of the most memorable in the book.
2012, Howard Pyle,The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur:
And when his body was against theburr of the spear, he took his sword in both his hands and he swung the sword above his head, and he smote King Arthur with the edge of the sword upon the helmet.
2015, James B. Tschen-Emmons,Artifacts from Medieval Europe, page280:
Many saddles, especially those for use on warhorses, had highburr plates and cantles. this was especially important when knights began using stirrups and the couched lance.
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Foote’s mimicry was exquisitely ludicrous, but it was all caricature. He could take off only some strange peculiarity, a stammer or a lisp, a Northumbrianburr or an Irish brogue, a stoop or a shuffle.
1914,G. K. Chesterton, “The Absence of Mr Glass”, inThe Wisdom of Father Brown[4]:
“That man Glass has been with him again; I heard them talking through the door quite plain. Two separate voices: for James speaks low, with aburr, and the other voice was high and quavery.”
He spoke with the deep richburr of his race and with a structure of speech that I cannot reproduce here.
2004 January 9, Kirsty Scott, “Why ye cannae learn English in Scotland”, inThe Guardian[6]:
The Scottishburr may often prove incomprehensible to English ears, but the Foreign Office apparently considers the accent so impenetrable that it has rejected a Russian student's application to study in Scotland on the grounds that she might not understand the language.
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, inRail, page65:
Judging by the new voice over the PA, we've had a crew change in Plymouth - the warning about masks and the apology for lack of catering is made in a chirpy Cockney twang rather than a West Countryburr.
The first thing Lucy noticed as she went in was aburring sound, and the first thing she saw was a kind-looking old she-beaver sitting in the corner with a thread in her mouth working busily at her sewing machine, and it was from it that the sound came.
1888, William Douglas Parish, William Francis Shaw,A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in Use in the County of Kent, page23:
The larger theburr the nearer the rain.
1949, Wilfrid J. Halliday, Arthur Stanley Umpleby,The White Rose Garland of Yorkshire Dialect Verse and Local and Folk-lore Rhymes:
... If t'bur o' t'muin be far away / Mek heaste an' house yer cworn an' hay; / Bit if t'bur be nar t'muin / We'll hev a clash bit nit sae suin. Prevost, p. 48. Prevost, p. 48.
Butler H., Inez M. (2000),Diccionario zapoteco de Yatzachi: Yatzachi el Bajo, Yatzachi el Alto, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”;37)[7], second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.:Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page31
