Talk:burgee

RFV discussion: May–June 2017

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burgee

Rfv-sense: "A kind of small coal used in furnaces." Webster's 1913 has the sense "A kind of small coat", so perhaps this is a misreading? - TheDaveRoss 13:12, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

OTOH, The Century Dictionary does have "A kind of small coal used for burning in engine-furnaces," so maybe it's Webster who misspelled it. But the only uses I can find are of the flag sense, a capitalized last name, and (rarely) a word meaning something along the lines of "burgher". Century has no examples and it's not in The English Dialect Dictionary, which sometimes has citations of obscure senses. Is it in the OED? - -sche (discuss) 18:05, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Britanica 1910 also has the coal sense I see. Additionally I found this other sense, possibly related to the coal sense but probably not.

- TheDaveRoss 18:31, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 06:23, 6 June 2017 (UTC)