Du Fu loves bamboo, and bamboo is most mentioned among the trees in his poem just because the cultural spirit that the bamboo contains: strength burl, open mind, long-suffering and the thin-hard characteristic on physique, is in good harmony with Du Fu's personal ideal and characteristic.
(of wood) have a pattern from the grain of a tree burl.
A knot or burl on a tree or in wood.
Fashioned a table from a redwood burl.
the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer.
Even Mr. Hugo, who’d had his own fencing master at Harvard, spoke with the usual Bronx burl—it was gangster talk, though Howell hadn’t met many gangsters on the Grand Concourse.
It was pointed out that more strict requirements had been seen with respect to the ability to resist accumulated burl of the coatings used for the surface protection of the annealing furnace of a.
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