Purl

Noun
purl


 * 1) A particular stitch in knitting.
 * 2) the edge of lace trimmed with loops

Verb
to purl


 * 1) To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
 * Needlework purled with gold.
 * 1)  an inverted stitch producing ribbing etc
 * Knit one, purl two.

Noun

 * 1) a heavy or headlong fall, an upset

Verb

 * 1)  to upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong
 * the huntsman was purled from his horse.

Related terms

 * purler

Verb

 * 1)  to flow with murmuring sound in swirls and eddies

Noun
purl


 * 1) (archaic) formerly ale spiced with wormwood and sometimes warmed.
 * A double mug of purle. (The Spectator No. 88.)

Thesaurus
adjoin, babble, befringe, bind, border, bound, bubble, burble, eddy, edge, enframe, frame, fringe, guggle, gurge, gurgle, gyrate, gyre, hem, lap, line, list, march, marge, margin, marginate, pirouette, plash, purfle, reel, rim, ripple, set off, side, skirt, slosh, spin, splash, swash, swirl, swish, trill, trim, twirl, verge, wash, whirl, whirligig, whirlpool, whorl

Etymology 1
Etymology uncertain; apparently related to Scots and dialect pirl ("twist, ripple, whirl, spin"), and possibly to Older Scots pyrl ("thrust or poke at"). Compare Venetian pirlo an embellishment where the woven threads are twisted together. May be unrelated to purfle, though the meanings are similar.

Etymology 2
from pirle:, Middle  pirla:

Etymology 3
From purla:

Etymology 4
Possibly from pearl like appearance of due to bubbles on surface of liquid.

Noun

 * Irish: lúb iompaithe


 * Manx: lhoob bun ry skyn

Anagrams

 * PLUR