burley

See also: Burley

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Etymology

Origin unknown. Compare the personal name Burley.

Noun

burley (countable and uncountable, plural burleys)

  1. (US) A tobacco grown mainly in Kentucky, used in making cigarettes. [from late 19th c.]
    • 1952, Glenn Leroy Johnson, Burley Tobacco Control Programs, page 59:
      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 burley
  2. (Australia) Blood and offal used by fishermen to attract fish.
    • 2018, Jacks Boric, “Fishing with Burley”, in Shimano Fishing Oceania:
      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.

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