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Purling

adj, noun, verb

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

    "the purlings of the stream"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of purl form-of, gerund, participle, present

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