[
UK
/pˈɜːl/
]
VERB
-
make a murmuring sound
the water was purling - flow in a circular current, of liquids
- embroider with gold or silver thread
- knit with a purl stitch
- edge or border with gold or silver embroidery
NOUN
- a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stich from the righthand side
- gold or silver wire thread
How To Use purl In A Sentence
- The search for a replacement cause brought with it shallow opportunism, the honing of public relations skills and a ragbag of nostrums, some of them purloined from its political opponents.
- The water gurgled and purled, loudly at first, then softly, as a powerful foot-wide whirlpool took shape.
- The other, often easier, method is to exchange the purline for a much stronger and larger one. 7. Gutters and downpipes
- A purlieu is a familiar or outlying place; a purview is a range or scope. Languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE.
- In the end by example, this system has much accuracy, rationality and continues purlin advantages.
- Their caper involves a nightlong journey of picking up cash all over town in a purloined bank van with Wayne and Henry posing as bank guards assigned to collect all this money.
- Spurlock possessed a vigorous intellect, critical, disquisitional, creative; and yet he saw nothing remarkable in the girl's readiness to marry him! The Ragged Edge
- On my first attempt – the one I ripped out on May 31 – I centered the decreases, and purled the vital stitch on the wrong side. Jean's Knitting
- I was most overwhelmed and went to bed having nightmares about socked feet walking up and down my naked body shouting knit one purl one faster faster…
- I was using a pen that I'd purloined from the office.