burin

5 letters in word "burin": B I N R U.

Anagrams of burin:

• bruin

• rubin

Words found within burin:

bi bin brin bun bur burn in nib nu nub nur rib rin rub ruin run un uni ur urb urn

• Definitions:
• An engraving tool with a knob-like wooden handle and a metal shaft that has a sharply beveled point that cuts a V-shaped groove into a metal ...
• an engraving tool. During the Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic burins were made by knocking a small flake called a burin spall from the side of a blade to leave a small straight edge at the top. This edge was like the tip of a pencil. ...
• A steel rod with a sharp beveled point that forms an incised V-shaped line in a metal plate. See burr.
• blade tool, flaked on either or both ends to form a small chisel or grooving tool.
• The engraving tool, known as a burin, has a sharply pointed V-shaped section. The engraver holds it almost parallel with the plate before forcing the point into the surface of the copper and driving it in a direction away from himself to scoop out a sliver of metal. ...
• A steel blade, nearly square, and often squared and sharpened at one end in the form of a grain of barley.
• A chisel-like Upper Paleolithic (ca. 35,000 to 10,000 years ago) tool used to cut, incise, and shape other materials such as bone, antler, wood and stone.
• a type of chipped stone artifact characterized by the deliberate removal of small prismatic flakes (burin-spalls) down one or more edges. Commonly assumed to have served as engraving or carving tools.
• The basic tool of the engraver (adopted from the silversmith) which is used to carve out the line, or burin, engraving on the plate or block.
• A chisel-like stone tool for engraving bone, wood, horn, or soft-stone.
• A tool, usually hard steel, used to draw on etching or engraving plates.
• Squared-shaped, sharpened steel wire in a mushroom-shaped handle; used for engraving on copper plate. Also used for engraving jewelry, guns, knives, etc.
• A tool with a V-shaped faceted blade used for engraving marks into a metal plate. The blade’s two sharp sides remove the metal without leaving a burr and produce a wiry-looking clean line.
• an engraver's tool. - 6 misses
• Any artifact used for the purpose of engraving and cutting into another surface. Chisel like implement.
• a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point; used for engraving
• In lithic reduction, a burin is a special type of lithic flake with a chisel-like edge which prehistoric humans may have used for engraving or for carving wood or bone. ...
• A burin refers to a steel cutting tool used by engravers.The word comes from the French burin meaning "cold chisel".

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