Purl

Definition: Purl

Purl

Noun

1. Gold or silver wire thread.

2. A basic knitting stitch.

Verb

1. Flow in a circular current, of liquids.

2. Make a murmuring sound; "the water was purling".

3. Knit with a purl stitch.

4. Edge or border with gold or silver embroidery.

5. Embroider with gold or silver thread.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "purl" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Personal Care & Hotels

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

PURL

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Purl

Food

Wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail; gin; (intoxicating liquor); coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep; near beer. beer, non-alcoholic beverage.

River

Verb: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out. (egress).

Crosswords: Purl

Books

• Knit One, Purl One: Historic and Contemporary Knitting from the V & A's Collection (reference)

• Knit, purl, and design! (reference)

• One plain, one purl : stories of a girlhood (reference)

• Purl and plain, and other stories (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "purl": purl knitting ♦ purl stitch. Additional references.

Albanian

punoj mbrapsht me shtiza, punim mbrapsht me shtiza, thur me gajtan, gurgulloj (babble, Bicker, bubble, gurgle, ripple, seethe), gurgullimë (gurgitation, gurgle, murmur, ripple), gajtan (bar, braid, cord, galloon, lace, lacing, piping, stay-lace, tape), bordurë (bandage, border, edging, hem, welt). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حبك بغرزات معكوسة, ‏تخوم (selvage, surroundings), ‏طرز بخيوط ذهبية, ‏خيط تطريز ذهبي أو فضي, ‏خريرالماء (murmur, ripple), ‏جدول (bayou, brook, chart, creek, flow, glen, gulch, gully, gutter, index, list, panel, register, rill, rivulet, runlet, runnel, scale, schedule, small stream, stagger, stream, table, tabulate, tally, wadi, water course), ‏النواحي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

водовъртеж (caldron, cauldron, gulf, maelstrom, vertiginous current, vortex, whirligig, whirlpool), плета опако, поръбвам с пико, поръбвам със сърма, бълбукам (burble, guggle, gurgle, rill, warble), бълбукане (guggle, gurgle, lisp), бързей (overfall, rapids, riffle, rip, shoot), пико, образувам бързеи (riffle), сърмени конци, греяна бира с джин, клокоча (wallop), клокочене (burble, gurgitation), ширит от усукана сърма, ромоля (babble, brawl, murmur, ripple), ромон (babble, burble, chatter, murmur, ripple, susurration), ромоня (burble, chatter), опако (inside, reverse side, wrong side). (various references)

Czech

zurèet (burble, gurgle), zurèení (gurgle, ripple), obruba (border, frame, hem, list, rim, ring, skirt, surround), obroubit portou. (various references)

Danish

kantille. (various references)

Dutch

murmelen (burble, gurgle, murmur, mutter). (various references)

Esperanto

plaŭdeti (burble, gurgle, murmur), lirli (burble, gurgle, murmur). (various references)

Farsi 

مثل فرفره چرخیدن (Whiz), کوک برجسته وقلابی , گلابتون (Braid), واژگون شدن (Capsize), حلقه حلقه شدن , حلقه دودیابخار, حاشیه (Border, Braid, Brim, Brink, Gloss, Margin, Outskirt, Rand, Verge), زمزمه اب , زری (Brocade), زرمشروب مالت , صدای شرشر, ابجودارای ادویه معطر, دوزی کردن , باشرشرجاری شدن . (various references)

Finnish

neuloa nurjaa, lorista (bubble, gurgle), liristä (ripple). (various references)

French

tricoter � l'envers, maille � l'envers, cannetille, � l'envers. (various references)

German

links stricken, linke masche, Kantille. (various references)

Greek 

κελάρυσμα (gurgle), κελαρύζω (babble, gurgle, ripple, swish), στριμμένο νήμα (thrown yarn, twisted yarn), ποτό εκ ζύθου αρωματισμένου, είδοσ κεντήματοσ, ανάποδη βελονιά. (various references)

Hungarian

szegélyez (border, braid, edge, fringe, line, margin, to braid, to flank, to fringe, to fringe upon, to list, to margin, to rim, to skirt, to trim), csipkeszegély, beszeg (hem, overcast, seam, to border, to fell, to hem, to overcast, to seam, to serge, to sew up, to whip), arany hímzõszál. (various references)

Italian

punto a rovescio, ricamo ornamentale a fili d'oro e d'argento, maglia rovescia, lavorare a rovescio, canutiglia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

パール編み (full cup, parentheses, parenthesis, pi, pie, pineapple, pioneer, pioneer spirit, pipe, pipe-line, pipe-organ, piping, purl stitch, tart, tube, vasectomy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

パールあみ (purl stitch). (various references)

Manx

lhune ullymar. (various references)

Pig Latin

urlpay

Portuguese

ponto reverso (embroidery), ponto de rendaria, picote (embroidery), sussurro (buzz, croon, embroidery, hum, murmur, ripple, rustle, sough, susurration, swish, whirr, whisper, whispering), rumorejo, remoinho (swirl), remoinhar, murmurar (bicker, brawl, bubble, coo, croon, gossip, groan, grumble, gurgle, ha, hum, lip, murmur, mutter, prattle, repine, sough, whisper), murmúrio (babblement, brawl, breath, breeze, bubble, buzz, chatter, croon, embroidery, murmur, mutter, ripple, sough, susurration, whisper, whispering), inverter pontos, fazer debruns, deslizar suavemente, canutilho (embroidery), canotilho, adornar (adorn, attire, bedeck, bejewel, blazon, decorate, fig, gild, grace, illuminate, lard, ornament, prank, set). (various references)

Romanian

tricota links, susura (babble, Bicker, brawl, chatter, gurgle, hum, murmur, Pearl, prattle, ripple, swish), murmura (babble, Bicker, brawl, breathe, chatter, croak, growl, grumble, gurgle, kick, moan, mumble, murmur, mutter, Pearl, prattle, ripple, round, rustle, sough, warble, whisper), lucra cu fir, fir (bit, clue, grain, hair, lint, particle, stitch, thread, tittle, wire), face franjuri, broderie (embroidery), broda (amplify, embellish, embroider, stitch, work). (various references)

Russian 

журчать (babble, murmur). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vezen porub, toplo pivo sa pelenom, kovitlanje (swirl, twirl, whirl, whirlabout), izvesti porub, žuboriti (bubble, burble, gurgle), žuborenje (susurration), žubor (burble, gurgle, ripple). (various references)

Spanish

puntilla (brad, lace, needle lace, Picot, small point, sprig, tiptoe), ribetear (bind, border, edge), ribete de hilo de oro, murmurar (babble, backbite, Bicker, burble, carry on, criticize, murmur, mutter, niggle, ripple), murmullo (babble, babbling, buzz, hum, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering, ripple), hilo de oro, hacer al revés, hacer a puntadas invertidas, canutillo (Bedford cord). (various references)

Swedish

porlande (gurgle, murmur, ripple, rippling), porla (bubble, gurgle, murmur, ripple), sticka avigt, sorlande, sorla (babble, buzz, gurgle, murmur), avig (awkward, inside out, wrong). (various references)

Turkish

ters örgü yapmak, ters örgü, sıcak bira, oya ile süslemek, nakış ile süslemek, kenar danteli, girdap (Eddy, gulf, suck, swirl, twist, vortex, whirlpool), şırıltı (babling, gurgle, plash, plashing, ripple), şırıldamak (babble, gurgle, plash, warble), çağıltı (murmur, plash), çağıldamak (babble, murmur). (various references)

Ukrainian

канитель (gimp), галун (alum, galloon), нашивати галун, зубчик (denticle), перекинутися (coup, go over), дзюрчання (babble, babbling, bickering, chatter, murmuring, ripple). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiếng kêu róc rách, cái ngã lộn tùng phèo, cái đâm bổ đầu xuống (purler). (various references)

Welsh

si%o (hiss, murmur, whiz). (various references)

pirlyng. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "purl": purled, purlieu, purlieus, purlin, purline, purlines, purling, purlins, purloin, purloined, purloiner, purloiners, purloining, purloins, purls. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Purl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aurl, jurl, kurl, parl, Parlt, perl, Peurl, phr, phur, phurl, piral, Plru, poral, porel, pru, prule, pubr, pul, pulv, pura, pural, purb, purel, purg, puril, purk, purle, purm, purn, purp, purply, purra, purt, Puura, rurl, turl, url. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pul, pur.

-2 letters: up.

+1 letter: puler, purls, slurp.

+2 letters: burlap, gulper, larrup, lumper, pleura, plural, pulers, puller, pulper, pulsar, pulser, purely, purfle, purled, purlin, purple, purply, rumple, rumply, slurps, upcurl.

+3 letters: burlaps, copular, coupler, crumple, crumply, culprit, cupeler, cupular, earplug, flareup, graupel, gulpers, gulpier, gyplure, larrups, leprous, lumpers, lumpier, lupanar, pabular, papular, parlour, parlous, pelorus, perusal, pilular, plaguer, pleurae, pleural, pleuras, pleuron, plucker, plugger, plumber, plumier, plumper, plunder, plunger, plunker, plurals, plusher, popular, poulard, poulter, poultry, prelude, prequel, primula, proudly, puberal, puddler, puerile, pullers, pulpers, pulpier, pulsars, pulsers, pupilar, purfled, purfles, purlieu, purline, purling, purlins, purloin, purpled, purpler, purples, pursily, puzzler, pylorus, replumb, repulse, roupily, rumpled, rumples, scruple, slurped, spirula, splurge, splurgy, sporule, spurtle, sulphur, suppler, surplus, upcurls.