burin

From French burin.

burin (plural burins)

1. A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver.
   • 2006, Stefan Zweig, Chess, translated by Anthea Bell, London: Penguin,

     I kept staring at the same wallpaper on the same wall; I stared at it so often that every line of its zigzag pattern has etched itself on the innermost folds of my brain as if with an engraver’s burin.

2. A prehistoric flint tool.

• burin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Bruni, Rubin, bruin, rub in, rubin

burin

1. hill, mountain

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, p. 7

Borrowed from Italian burino.

• IPA^(key): /by.ʁɛ̃/

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burin m (plural burins)

1. burin, graver

• buriner

• burin on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “burin” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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