A knot or nodule that forms in wood, often making it difficult to work with; a wood defect.
Compound of burr (a knot or rounded lump) + knot. Specific to woodworking terminology, describing natural wood imperfections.
Woodworkers fear burrknots because they wreck drill bits and saw blades—nature's way of making wood harder to work with at random locations!
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