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Main meanings of burton in English

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‘And there's where rule Number Three went for a burton.’

‘My CD player has gone for a burton; I don't know what on earth is wrong with it.’
‘Cardiff's unbeaten start was not the only record to go for a burton.’
‘Someone would say ‘Bill Smith went for a burton last night’.’
‘This weekend's long run has gone for a burton courtesy of a trip to the Azores tomorrow.’

go for a burton

British

informal

Meet with disaster; be ruined, destroyed, or killed.
- ‘his boat would cut mine in two and I'd go for a burton’

Second World War (originally RAF slang): perhaps referring to Burton ale, from Burton upon Trent.

Translate burton into Spanish

(also burton-tackle)

historical

A light two-block tackle for hoisting.
‘‘A burton-tackle to the chess tree,’ he called, loud and clear.’
- ‘Gilliatt had barely time to seize the burton tackle.’
- ‘From each steel cap at the apex two steel cables led to the enormous 16-sheave burton tackle whose pendant was geared at 8000-to-1 ratio to a 5-horsepower electric motor winch.’
- ‘The shrouds and back-stays are first cast off, and the mast-head got as far forward as nearly to touch the fore-part of the partners, by the runners and tackles or burtons of the mizenmast.’