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Purl

noun
1.
Gold or silver wire thread.
2.
A basic knitting stitch.  Synonym: purl stitch.





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"Purl" Quotes from Famous Books



... I care how the officers come it over me; they're gentlemen, and it don't try a fellow," would Rake say in confidential moments over purl and a penn'orth of bird's-eye, his experience in the Argentine Republic having left him with strongly aristocratic prejudices; "but when it comes to a duffer like that, that knows no better than me, what ain't a bit better than me, and what is as clumsy a duffer ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... skin; and, ye Centaurs! what seats were there!" It must have been a sight for proper men to see. Not the veriest tailor would walk on Derby day. He "would mount a mis-teached hippogriff, and risk the chance of a purl, rather than not show at the covert-side." Who, indeed, would not bestride a steed when he might meet the Assassin and the O'Bluster in the ring? But ...
— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker


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


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