(bûr′tən) noun Naut.
A light hoisting tackle, usually one kept hooked to the pendant at the topmasthead of a vessel. [Origin uncertain]

(bur′tən), Harold Hitz,
born 1888, U.S. jurist; associate justice of the Supreme Court 1945–59.
—Sir Richard Francis,
1821–1890, English traveler and writer.
—Robert,
1577–1640, English scholar, author, and clergyman.