See purler on Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From purl (“a fall”).",
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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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