Meaning of Bury | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A burrow.
   obsolete, transitive
2. A borough; a manor
   transitive
3. A place in England:
   countable, uncountable
4. A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL2883).
   countable, uncountable
5. A town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester.
   countable, uncountable
6. A hamlet in Brompton Regis parish, Somerset West and Taunton district, Somerset (OS grid ref SS9427).
   countable, uncountable
7. A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ0113).
   countable, uncountable
8. Ellipsis of Bury St Edmunds.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
9. A village in Péruwelz municipality, Hainaut province, Belgium.
   countable, uncountable
10. A commune in Oise department, Hauts-de-France, France.
    countable, uncountable
11. A municipality in Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Estrie region, Quebec, Canada.
    countable, uncountable
12. A habitational surname from Old English.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.”

“The conies had hundreds of buries under these trees, so close together that the problem was not to find a rabbit, but to find a rabbit far enough away from its hole.”

“Indisputable, though very dim to modern vision, rests on its hill-slope that same Bury, Stow, or Town of St. Edmund; already a considerable place, not without traffic”

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