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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A particular stitch in knitting; an inversion of stitches giving the work a ribbed or waved appearance.
- a heavy or headlong fall; an upset.
- (UK, dialect) A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
- (archaic) Ale or beer spiced with wormwood or other bitter herbs, regarded as a tonic.
- (UK, dialect) A tern.
- The edge of lace trimmed with loops.
- (UK, dialect) A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
- (archaic) Hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.
- An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
Verb
- To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
- (archaic) To upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong.
- (intransitive) To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
- (knitting) an inverted stitch producing ribbing etc
- To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
Exempel
- A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched with purl and pearl.
- Needlework purled with gold.
- Knit one, purl two.
- The huntsman was purled from his horse.
- Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, / Louder and louder purl the falling rills.
- thin winding breath which purled up to the sky
- Whose stream an easy breath doth seem to blow, / Which on the sparkling gravel runs in purles, / As though the waves had been of silver curls.
- the purl of a brook
- A double mug of purle.
- Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite.
- Drinking hot purl, and smoking pipes.
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