Citations:burra


 * 1908, Folklore Society (Great Britain), Publications, page 383:
 * Burra is the name given in Orkney and Shetland to the common kind of rush - used for feeding sheep. Connected with this is Bear (Lancashire), name of a  door-mat made of the peeling of rushes.
 * 1981, James R. Nicolson, Shetland Folklore, Robert Hale
 * The heath rush, known as burra, was once used in making brushes known simply as burra besoms. The long thin leaves of marlak (eel grass) were dried and used for stuffing mattresses because this plant was believed to be proof against ...