Purling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Purling is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of purl.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of purl.
More Meanings
- That purls; rippling, eddying.
- The motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound.
Example Sentences
the purlings of the stream
"Thank Heaven," cried Henrietta, laughing, "you do not, even in fancy, turn me into a shepherdess, with sheep on one side, and a purling brook on the other."
[Thomas Jefferson] was up near the source of the River of America, near the Three Forks, while we are downstream from New Orleans in a broad, deep, incredibly powerful river that often feels more like a sewer than a purling mountain stream.
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.
Word Forms
- purlings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include whirlpool, swirl, whirl, gurge, eddy, rill.
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