burin

name

1. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.

noun

1. A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver.

   “I kept staring at the same wallpaper on the same wall; I stared at it so often that every line of its zigzag pattern has etched itself on the innermost folds of my brain as if with an engraver’s burin.”

2. A prehistoric flint tool