Word.ws English Dictionary

borrell

borrell is the obsolete form of burel.

Meaning of burel

Noun

burel (countable and uncountable, plural burels)

  1. A coarse woolen cloth.
    • Burels at this time seem to have been made in lengths of 20 ells and sold at 8d. the ell, while the better quality cloths - browns, plunkets, blues, and greens - were nearly twice the length, and cost about 22d. the ell.1964, L. F. Salzman, English Industries of the Middle Ages, page 199

Proper noun capitalized: Borrell

Borrell (plural Borrells)

  1. A surname.

Forms of borrell

pluralBorrells

Questions about borrell

What does borrell mean?
Borrell means a surname.
What is borrell the obsolete form of?
Borrell is the obsolete form of burel.
What part of speech is borrell?
Borrell is a proper noun.

Words near borrell in the dictionary

  1. borrelian
  2. borrelias
  3. borrelicidal
  4. borrelioses
  5. borreliosis
  6. borrell
  7. Borrelli
  8. Borrellis
  9. Borrells
  10. borrels
  11. Borrero

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: borrell (page history and authors); Borrell (page history and authors); burel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “borrell.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/borrell. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.