"purler" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From purl (“a fall”).",
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          "text": "He came a purler on the icy path.",
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          "text": "1869, “Stonehenge” (editor), The Coursing Calendar for the Autumn Season 1868, Containing Returns of All the Public Courses Run in Great Britain snd Ireland, page 172,\nDilston and Savernake: the latter led, and turned, but in trying to kill came down a purler, which completely knocked all the go out of him; Dilston took possession of the hare, and kept it, winning the course in hollow style."
        },
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          "ref": "1954, British Broadcasting Corporation, The Listener, volume 51, page 67",
          "text": "Her French-speaking table in the dining-room is a riot of second-rate behaviour and dexterously aimed bread-pellets; the stairs outside her bedroom are relentlessly buttered and she comes purler after purler.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "1986, Judith Saxton (Katie Flynn), Family Feeling, 2012, unnumbered page,\nYet he was very sure that he had tripped and gone a purler just as he was leaving the Other Place . . . had that made him gash his forehead, once he was back in the pit?"
        },
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          "ref": "2003, Susan Hill, The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read: The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read: And Other Stories, published 2011, unnumbered page",
          "text": "‘You could hold the ladder,’ Mart said, ‘see I don′t come a purler.’",
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        "A headlong fall or tumble."
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        "(UK, colloquial) A headlong fall or tumble."
      ],
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      "glosses": [
        "A knockdown blow; a blow that causes a person to fall headlong."
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        "(UK, colloquial) A knockdown blow; a blow that causes a person to fall headlong."
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          "word": "king hit"
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          "ref": "2000 May 12, peter.ryan, “Top3 best games of all time”, in aus.sport.aussie-rules (Usenet)",
          "text": "The greatest game ever played is the one marketed with that tag by Australian Football Video: the 1989 round 6 match at Prince's Park between Hawthorn and Geelong, an awesome display of the skills of the game. It is doubtful whether two such great sides had ever graced a single season as the Hawks and the Cats did in 1989. The return match in September was a bit of a purler too, as I recall.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 December 24, George W, “Best way to transport wreck Syd-Tsv.”, in aus.motorcycles (Usenet)",
          "text": "And just when I had a slight thought that there could be a \"Lets be nice to George Week\"\nAnd you come along with that purler.",
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        "Something extremely good."
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        "(Australia, colloquial) Something extremely good."
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          "text": "He came a purler on the icy path.",
          "type": "example"
        },
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          "text": "1869, “Stonehenge” (editor), The Coursing Calendar for the Autumn Season 1868, Containing Returns of All the Public Courses Run in Great Britain snd Ireland, page 172,\nDilston and Savernake: the latter led, and turned, but in trying to kill came down a purler, which completely knocked all the go out of him; Dilston took possession of the hare, and kept it, winning the course in hollow style."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1954, British Broadcasting Corporation, The Listener, volume 51, page 67",
          "text": "Her French-speaking table in the dining-room is a riot of second-rate behaviour and dexterously aimed bread-pellets; the stairs outside her bedroom are relentlessly buttered and she comes purler after purler.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "1986, Judith Saxton (Katie Flynn), Family Feeling, 2012, unnumbered page,\nYet he was very sure that he had tripped and gone a purler just as he was leaving the Other Place . . . had that made him gash his forehead, once he was back in the pit?"
        },
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          "ref": "2003, Susan Hill, The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read: The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read: And Other Stories, published 2011, unnumbered page",
          "text": "‘You could hold the ladder,’ Mart said, ‘see I don′t come a purler.’",
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        "A headlong fall or tumble."
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        "(UK, colloquial) A headlong fall or tumble."
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        "(UK, colloquial) A knockdown blow; a blow that causes a person to fall headlong."
      ],
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        "colloquial"
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          "ref": "2000 May 12, peter.ryan, “Top3 best games of all time”, in aus.sport.aussie-rules (Usenet)",
          "text": "The greatest game ever played is the one marketed with that tag by Australian Football Video: the 1989 round 6 match at Prince's Park between Hawthorn and Geelong, an awesome display of the skills of the game. It is doubtful whether two such great sides had ever graced a single season as the Hawks and the Cats did in 1989. The return match in September was a bit of a purler too, as I recall.",
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        {
          "ref": "2008 December 24, George W, “Best way to transport wreck Syd-Tsv.”, in aus.motorcycles (Usenet)",
          "text": "And just when I had a slight thought that there could be a \"Lets be nice to George Week\"\nAnd you come along with that purler.",
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        "Something extremely good."
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        "(Australia, colloquial) Something extremely good."
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