[Attrib. use of the name of a place in Cornwall.] Bude-burner, a gas-burner invented by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (who resided at Bude), consisting of several concentric argand rings. Bude-light, see quot. Bude sand, sand from Bude, used as a dressing for soil.
1807. Vancouver, Agric. Devon (1813), 157. Old spaded and burnt moors, dressed with 100 seams of bude sand.
1835. Mech. Mag., XXIII. 80. The Bude Light is a name given by Mr. Gurney … to a new light … obtained by directing a stream of oxy-hydrogen gas on a quantity of pounded egg shells.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, II. 559. The Bude burner consists of 2 or 3 concentric argand rings perforated.
