Meaning
5 sensesTo decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
Needlework purled with gold.
To use or create a purl stitch or stitches.
Knit one, purl two.
Stockinette fabric is created by knitting the right-side rows and purling the wrong-side rows.
knit with a purl stitch
(intransitive)To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
журчатьžurčatʹ
дзюрча́тиdzjurčáty, дзюркота́тиdzjurkotáty, дзюркоті́тиdzjurkotíty
make a murmuring sound
To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
(archaic)To upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong.
The huntsman was purled from his horse.
Examples
2 sentencesThe voice spoke to him, and its softness was the purl of a wave lapping at the shore.
I'm a beginner, so I think I'll start from a 'garter stitch' muffler or a 'knit-one-purl-one stitch' one.
ruЯ новичок, поэтому, думаю, начну с платочной вязки или резинки один-к-одному. — amanshi
Translations
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Origin
Unknown; apparently related to Scots and dialect pirl (“twist, ripple, whirl, spin”), andUnknown; apparently related to Scots and dialect pirl (“twist, ripple, whirl, spin”), and possibly to Older Scots pyrl ("thrust or poke at"). Compare Venetan pirlo, an embellishment where the woven threads are twisted together. May be unrelated to purfle, though the meanings are similar.
from Middle English pirle (“whirligig”), Middle Italian pirla (“whipping top”).
From Old Norse purla (“to babble”), possibly ultimately from an imitative Germanic base related to Dutch polder, Norwegian puldra (“to gush”) and pulla (“to bubble”), Old English polr (“marsh”).
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Forms
purls, purling, purled, purledSynonyms
5 synonymsWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.