"purling" meaning in English

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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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          "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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          "text": "the purlings of the stream"
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