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burleys

burleys is the plural of burley.

Meaning of burley

Noun

burley (countable and uncountable, plural burleys)

  1. (US) A tobacco grown mainly in Kentucky, used in making cigarettes.
    • The price received by farmers at the auctions for burley has decreased, other conditions being about average, around 1.45 cents for each 10-million-pound increase in the production of burley1952, Glenn Leroy Johnson, Burley Tobacco Control Programs, page 59
  2. (Australia, New Zealand) Blood and offal used by fishermen to attract fish.
    • Fish will swim up your burley trail looking for the source which should be where your baits are placed, instead of dumping a heap of burley at once where the fish will feed on it quickly and move on.2018, Jacks Boric, “Fishing with Burley”, in Shimano Fishing Oceania
    Synonyms:
    chum

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Questions about burleys

What is burleys the plural of?
Burleys is the plural of burley.

Words near burleys in the dictionary

  1. Burlew
  2. Burlews
  3. burley
  4. Burley in Wharfedale
  5. burleycue
  6. burleys
  7. burlicue
  8. burlier
  9. burliest
  10. burlike
  11. burlily

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