Purling
adj, noun, verb
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound.
"the purlings of the stream"
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of purl form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
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