Purl

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To flow or ripple with a murmuring sound.
  • n. The sound made by rippling water.
  • v. To knit (yarn) with a purl stitch.
  • v. To edge or finish (a handkerchief, for example) with lace or embroidery.
  • verb-intransitive. To do knitting with a purl stitch.
  • verb-intransitive. To edge or finish with lace or embroidery.
  • n. Inversion of a knit stitch; purl stitch.
  • n. A decorative edging of lace or embroidery.
  • n. Gold or silver wire used in embroidery.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A particular stitch in knitting.
  • n. the edge of lace trimmed with loops
  • v. To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
  • v. an inverted stitch producing ribbing etc
  • n. a heavy or headlong fall, an upset
  • v. to upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong
  • v. to flow with murmuring sound in swirls and eddies
  • n. formerly ale spiced with wormwood and sometimes warmed.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To decorate with fringe or embroidery.
  • n. An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
  • n. An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance.
  • verb-intransitive. To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions.
  • verb-intransitive. To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
  • n. A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
  • n. A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
  • n. Malt liquor, medicated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.
  • n. A tern.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To flow with a rippling or murmuring sound, as a shallow stream over or among stones or other obstructions; ripple along in eddying and bubbling swirls.
  • n. A continued murmuring sound, as of a shallow stream of water running over small stones: as, the purl of a brook.
  • n. A murmuring brook or rippling stream of water.
  • To curl or swirl; move in rippling or eddying swirls.
  • To upset; overturn; capsize. [Slang.] See the quotation under II., 2.
  • To whirl about; cause to rotate: as, the wind purls a snow-drift.
  • To upset; overturn; also, specifically, as a hunting term, to unseat or unhorse.
  • To wind, as thread, upon a reel or spindle.
  • n. A circle or curl made by the motion of water; a ripple; an eddy.
  • To ornament with a decorative border of any sort; decorate with fringe or embroidery; purfle.
  • To invert, as a stitch in knitting; turn over and knit the other way; seam.
  • n. A border of embroidery or perhaps of lace, or gold lace or galloon.
  • n. A spiral of gold or silver wire, used in lace-work.
  • n. An inversion of the stitches in knitting, which gives to parts of the work an appearance different from the general surface, such as the ribbed appearance of those parts where great elasticity is required.
  • n. A plait or fold, as in an article of dress.
  • n. In lace-making, a kind of lace in common use in the sixteenth century, and often of great value.
  • n. A drink, of which beer is the principal ingredient, defined about 1815 as hot beer mixed with gin: same as dog's-nose; in later times, a stimulating mixture of beer, gin, sugar, and ginger.
  • A Middle English form of prowl.
  • n. The common tern, or sea-swallow.
  • n. In embroidered bookbinding, a fine copper coil closely covered with colored silks.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a basic knitting stitch
  • v. knit with a purl stitch
  • v. embroider with gold or silver thread
  • v. make a murmuring sound
  • v. edge or border with gold or silver embroidery
  • v. flow in a circular current, of liquids
  • n. gold or silver wire thread
  • Verb Form
    purled    purling    purls   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    knitting stitch    knit    embroider    broider    resound    make noise    noise    course    feed    flow   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    curl    mantle    eddy    ripple    tern    frill    edge   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    graders    edn    treble    inst    installment    grader    scallop    stitch    doyley    arrondissement