Usually means: Rigging method used on ships.
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  1. Burton: Merriam-Webster
  2. burton, burton: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. burton: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. burton: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Burton: Vocabulary.com
  6. Burton, burton: Wordnik
  7. burton: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Burton, burton: Wiktionary
  9. burton: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. burton: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Burton, burton: Dictionary.com
  12. Burton (UK Parliament constituency), Burton (car), Burton (civil parish), Burton (clothes retailer), Burton (clothing), Burton (crater), Burton (musician), Burton (name), Burton (nut), Burton (retailer), Burton, The Burton: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Burton: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. burton: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Burton: Rhymezone
  16. Burton: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. burton: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. burton: FreeDictionary.org
  19. burton: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Burton: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. burton: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Burton (disambiguation), burton: Encyclopedia
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  2. Burton: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. burton, Burton: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Burton: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. The Burton, burton: Urban Dictionary

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Burton)

noun:  An English habitational surname from Old English for someone who lived in any of several places with that name.
noun:  A male given name.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A locality in Navajo County, Arizona.
noun:  A former town in Rabun County, Georgia, now submerged.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Madison County, Idaho.
noun:  An unincorporated community, census-designated place, and township in Adams County, Illinois.
noun:  A township in McHenry County, Illinois.
noun:  An unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky.
noun:  A city in Genesee County, Michigan.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Owosso Township, Shiawassee County, Michigan.
noun:  A township in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota.
noun:  An unincorporated community and inactive township in Howard County, Missouri.
noun:  A tiny village in Keya Paha County, Nebraska.
noun:  A village and township in Geauga County, Ohio.
noun:  A census-designated place on Port Royal Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina.
noun:  A minor city in Washington County, Texas.
noun:  An unincorporated community on Vashon Island, King County, Washington.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
noun:  An unincorporated community in the town of Waterloo, Grant County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A place in Canada:
noun:  A settlement in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia.
noun:  A rural community and parish in Sunbury County, New Brunswick.
noun:  A settlement in western Prince Edward Island.
noun:  A number of places in England and Wales:
noun:  A small village in Duddon and Burton parish, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ5163).
noun:  A village on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ3174).
noun:  A village in Burton and Winkton parish, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset (OS grid ref SZ1694).
noun:  A civil parish (served by Burton-by-Lincoln Parish Council) in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire (OS grid ref SK9674).
noun:  A hamlet in Bamburgh parish, Northumberland (OS grid ref NU1733).
noun:  A civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, which serves and is also short for Burton upon Trent.
noun:  A village in Nettleton parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8179).
noun:  A hamlet in Mere parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8232).
noun:  A village and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9805).
noun:  A village in Rossett community, Wrexham county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3557).
noun:  A place in Australia:
noun:  A rural locality in Isaac Region, Queensland.
noun:  A suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Salisbury, South Australia.
noun:  (archaic) An arrangement of blocks and pulleys, especially for tightening rigging on a ship.
noun:  (archaic) Storage of cargo athwartships.

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