1. Having small knots that produce a distorted grain in wood.
Origin
Burled comes from the Old French word bourle, which meant a tuft of wool.
Quotes
It was Friday evening, and the master of Turpmtine, Charlie Croker, was presiding over dinner at the burled tupelo maple table Ronald Vine had devised for the Gun Room, which was the showpiece of the plantation’s new Gun House.
— Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full
