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Manfred
 
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Default Burl and Bourle (french)

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"Denis Marier" wrote in message
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The English Harrarp's (2001) does not have the word BURL. The Canadian
Oxford
states that a Burl comes from old French "Bourle". I wonder what the

French
woodturners are using today to depict a flattened knotty growth (burl) on

a
tree.