Noun: Brunton
| Singular | Brunton |
| Plural | Bruntons |
Sample Sentences
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USING A BRUNTON AS A PROTRACTOR
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If you find yourself without a protractor for plotting rays on a map in the field—as you must do when triangulating—you can first field-orient your map and then use the Brunton as a protractor […] [2009, Tom Freeman, Procedures in Field Geology, page 13:]
Nouns inflected like Brunton
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From a metathesized form of Old English burna (“stream”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). This surname is also common in Ireland. See: Old English Nouns '
burna'.