Noun: burin
| Singular | burin |
| Plural | burins |
Sample Sentences
-
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. [2006, Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell, Chess, London: Penguin:]
Nouns inflected like burin
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French burin. Doublet of boline. See: French Nouns '
burin'.