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purling

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of purl

adjective more purling · most purling

  1. That purls; rippling, eddying. They have sometimes caused an high steepy mountaine to arise in the midst of the sayd Amphitheaters, all over-spred with fruitfull and flourishing trees of all sortes, on the top whereof gushed out streames of water as from out the source of a purling spring.

noun purlings

  1. The motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound. the purlings of the stream

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@misc{purling_2026,
  title = {purling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/purling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}