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He blew his nose 'ard and Mrs. Walker kept rubbing 'er eyes with her apron while they talked in whispers and wondered 'ow much money they 'ad come in for In less than ten minutes the news was all over Clay-bury, and arf the people in the place hanging round in front of the 'ouse waiting to hear 'ow much the Walkers 'ad come in for.

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  1. transitive verb To place in the ground: bury a bone.
  2. transitive verb To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter.
  3. transitive verb To dispose of (a corpse) ritualistically by means other than interment or cremation.
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  • A character at the end of the clip said: "All we could bury was his flipper." —  Reuters: Top News
  • Just like any other bury, your bonsai conceal will payment from exposure to sunlight. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • "All we could bury was his flipper," Snyman laments.
  • Come on, Diggy Republitards -- bury a New York Times opinion piece as —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • Nivir within half a mile uv Schmitt did they go, but by gorry, he gits wind uv it 'n' th' nixt mornin' not so much as a sign uv him wuz thar left Cleared out, loike that," said Pete, clapping his hands and spreading his arms by way of illustrating how Adolf Schmitt had vanished in air Thar wuz th' grocery full uv stuff and all, 'n' the furnitoor upstairs, but Adolf 'n' the old wooman 'n' th' kids 'n' sich duds ez they cud cram inter their bags wuz gone--bury drawers lift wide open, ez if they'd went in a ghreat hurry Tom had listened in great surprise. —  Tom Slade on a Transport
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  1. Middle English burien, from Old English byrgan; see bhergh-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. A form equivalent to borough, due to the genitive and dative form byrig of the orig. Anglo-Saxon burh, a fortified place, town, borough: see borough, burrow.
  2. Another form of burrow, orig, barrow. Cf. equivalent berry.
  3. Early modern English also bery (the form to which the modern pron. belongs), from Middle English beryen, berien, biryen, birien, buryen, burien, byrien, from Anglo-Saxon byrgan, variant byrigan, birgan, birigan, weak verb, bury, inter (a dead body) (= Icelandic byrgja, close, shut, hide, veil), apparently orig. save or keep by covering or hiding, from beorgan (preterit bearh, plural burgon, past participle borgen), also ge-beorgan, save, protect, shelter, defend, keep, preserve, early Middle English berʒen = Old Saxon gi-bergan = Dutch bergen = Middle Low German bergen, bargen, Low German bargen = Old High German bergan, Middle High German G. bergen = Icelandic bjarga = Swedish berga = Danish bjerge = Gothic (Moesogothic) bairgan, ga-bairgan, keep, save: not known outside of Teutonic Hence ult. borrow, and (prob.) borough = burrow = bury, etc.
  4. A corruption of French beurré, a kind of pear, literally ‘buttered,’ past participle of beurrer, butter, from beurre = English butter. Also burrel, q.v.
 

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