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Purl

verb

(past & past part. purled; pres. part. purling)

Flow in a circular current, of liquids. Synonyms: eddy, swirl, whirl, whirlpool.

Make a murmuring sound. Synonym: sough.

Knit with a purl stitch.

Edge or border with gold or silver embroidery.

Embroider with gold or silver thread.

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"Purl" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the Peacock,—where I found everybody drinking hot purl, in self-preservation,—I asked if there were an inside seat to spare. I then discovered that, inside or out, I was the only passenger. This gave me a still livelier idea of the great inclemency of the weather, ...

— The Holly-Tree • Charles Dickens

... enamelling, and it was not distasteful, in our approach to such a kindly, artificial old place as Hampton Court, to suppose that we were passing through enamelled meads. Under the circumstances we might have expected our train to purl, in default of a stream to perform the part, and I can truly say of it that it arrived with us in a mood so pastoral that I still cannot understand why we did not ask for a fly at the station in a couplet out of Pope. We got the fly easily enough in our prose vernacular, and the driver hid his ...

— London Films • W.D. Howells

Words linked to "Purl" : embroider, make noise, knit, feed, run, flow, thread, broider, resound, handicraft, noise, knitting stitch, yarn, course