Might mean (unverified): Knitting technique for creating texture.
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noun:  Obsolete form of pearl. [A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Round lustrous pearls are used in jewellery.]
noun:  Obsolete form of purl. [A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.]

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