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nurstle

nurstle is the alternative spelling of nursle.

Meaning of nursle

Verb

nursle (third-person singular simple present nursles, present participle nursling, simple past and past participle nursled)

  1. (archaic) To nurture, train, raise (a person).
    • the late borne childe […] till to ryper yeares he gan aspire, / He noursled vp in life and manners wilde […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of nurstle

third-person singular presentnurstles
present participlenurstling
past participlenurstled
pastnurstled

Questions about nurstle

What is nurstle the alternative spelling of?
Nurstle is the alternative spelling of nursle.

Words near nurstle in the dictionary

  1. nursles
  2. nursling
  3. Nursling and Rownhams
  4. nurslings
  5. nurst
  6. nurstle
  7. nurstled
  8. nurstling
  9. nursy
  10. nurturable
  11. nurtural

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nurstle (page history and authors); nursle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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