purl

Plural: purls

Noun

• gold or silver wire thread
• a basic knitting stitch
• A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.
• The edge of lace trimmed with loops.
• An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
• a heavy or headlong fall; an upset.
• A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
• A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
• Ale or beer spiced with wormwood or other bitter herbs, regarded as a tonic.
• Hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.
• A tern.

Verb

Verb Forms: purled, purling, purls

• To knit with an inverted stitch, creating a ribbed pattern.
• flow in a circular current, of liquids
• make a murmuring sound
  • "the water was purling"
• knit with a purl stitch
• edge or border with gold or silver embroidery
• embroider with gold or silver thread
• To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
• To use or create a purl stitch or stitches.
• To upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong.
• To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
• To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.

Examples

• Knit one, purl two.
• Needlework purled with gold.
• She hoped to PURL her way to victory, connecting small words for maximum points.
• Stockinette fabric is created by knitting the right-side rows and purling the wrong-side rows.
• The huntsman was purled from his horse.
• the purl of a brook

Synonyms

eddy, purl stitch, sough, swirl, whirl, whirlpool

Related Words

purler

Anagrams of purl