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prill¹

  • /pɹɪl/

Rhymes with -ɪl

Where it comes from

A variant of purl, 17th century.

verb prills · prilling · prilled

  1. to flow, spurt the Thames, prillingfrom her naked breast

noun prills

  1. a rill, a small stream Each silver Prill gliding on golden Sand
  2. obsolete a spinning top

prill²

  • /pɹɪl/

Rhymes with -ɪl

Where it comes from

Unknown. OED mentions Cornish pryl (“sheep-droppings”) as a likely loan from English.

noun prills

  1. a pellet, a granule, a small bead Prills are free-flowing pellets developed for fertilizer as a coarse product with little setting tendency that can be spread easily and smoothly.
  2. rich copper ore remaining after removal of low-grade material; a droplet of copper suspended in molten slag
  3. A nugget of virgin metal.
  4. The button of metal from an assay.

verb prills · prilling · prilled

  1. to produce pellets by forming a molten substance into droplets which solidify while falling

    Similar: pelletize

prill³

  • /pɹɪl/

Rhymes with -ɪl

noun prills

  1. The brill, a kind of flatfish.

prill⁴

  • /pɹɪl/

Rhymes with -ɪl

verb prills · prilling · prilled

  1. UK, dialectal, intransitive To grow sour.
  2. UK, dialectal, intransitive To become tipsy.

Prill⁵

proper noun Prills

  1. A surname.

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noun a pellet, a granule

Русскийгра́нула gránula

noun a nugget of virgin metal

Русскийсаморо́док samoródok

verb to produce pellets

Русскийгранули́ровать granulírovatʹ

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@misc{prill_2026,
  title = {prill},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/prill},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}