Also 6 borler, 7 buriler. [f. BURL v.1 + -ER1. The form borler doubtfully belongs here: see also BURILLER.] One who dresses cloth by removing knots and extraneous particles.
1483. Cath. Angl., 48. A burler, extuberarius.
c. 1500. Cocke Lorell’s B. (1843), 9. Borlers, tapstry workemakers and dyers.
1565. J. Halle, Hist. Expost., 8. One Thomas Lufkyn … a fuller, and burler of clothe.
1720. Stow’s Surv. (ed. Strype, 1754), II. V. s. 286/2. The … sheriffs caused to appear before them the Dyers, Taylors, Burilers … and fullers.
1757. Dyer, Fleece (1807), 96. The clothier’s shears And burler’s Thistle skim the surface sheen.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, I. 550. Burlers, women are so called who are engaged in removing from woollen cloths, with tweezers, all irregular threads or hair.
