purling

Verb (1)

purl (third-person singular simple present purls, present participle purling, simple past and past participle purled)

1. To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
   • Needlework purled with gold.
2. To use or create a purl stitch or stitches.
   • Knit one, purl two.

Verb (2)

purl (third-person singular simple present purls, present participle purling, simple past and past participle purled)

1. (archaic) To upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong.
   • The huntsman was purled from his horse.

Verb (3)

purl (third-person singular simple present purls, present participle purling, simple past and past participle purled)

1. (intransitive) To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
   • Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, / Louder and louder purl the falling rills.1715–1720, Homer, “Book XXI”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC
2. To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
   • thin winding breath which purled up to the sky1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC

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