burley

Unknown. Compare the personal name Burley.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbɜː(ɹ)li/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)li
• Homophones: burly, Burley, Burleigh

burley (countable and uncountable, plural burleys)

1. (US) A tobacco grown mainly in Kentucky, used in making cigarettes. [from late 19th c.]
   • 1952, Glenn Leroy Johnson, Burley Tobacco Control Programs, page 59:

     The price received by farmers at the auctions for burley has decreased, other conditions being about average, around 1.45 cents for each 10-million-pound increase in the production of burley

2. (Australia) Blood and offal used by fishermen to attract fish.
   • 2018, Jacks Boric, “Fishing with Burley”, in Shimano Fishing Oceania‎:

     Fish will swim up your burley trail looking for the source which should be where your baits are placed, instead of dumping a heap of burley at once where the fish will feed on it quickly and move on.

• (tobacco): red burley, white burley

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1987-1996.

• Bruley, uberly