Usually means: Small, waste flake from toolmaking.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (microburin)

noun:  A characteristic waste product from the ancient manufacture of lithic tools: a fragment of a lithic flake or blade that shows on its upper face the beginnings of a notch terminating in an oblique flection that ends in a very acute trihedral apex.

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