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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