"purling" meaning in All languages combined

See purling on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more purling [comparative], most purling [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} purling (comparative more purling, superlative most purling)
  1. That purls; rippling, eddying.
    Sense id: en-purling-en-adj-xhym1qJP

Noun [English]

Forms: purlings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} purling (plural purlings)
  1. The motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound.
    Sense id: en-purling-en-noun-c3DP6FvQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 72 18 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 20 56 25 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 79 9

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} purling
  1. present participle and gerund of purl Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: purl
    Sense id: en-purling-en-verb--bgTsyLe

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.6:",
          "text": "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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          "ref": "1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 44:",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2018, Clay S. Jenkinson, Jefferson's Second American Revolution, in: The Jefferson Watch, December 18 2018",
          "text": "[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."
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