Usually means: Knitting technique creating raised rows.
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  1. purling: Collins English Dictionary
  2. purling: Vocabulary.com
  3. Purling, purling: Wordnik
  4. purling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. purling: Wiktionary
  6. Purling, purling: Dictionary.com
  7. Purling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Purling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. purling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Purling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. purling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. purling: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Purling: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. purling: Merriam-Webster

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  1. purling: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (purling)

▸ adjective:  That purls; rippling, eddying.
▸ noun:  The motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound.

Similar:
swirl, whirl, whirlpool, gurge, eddy, purl stitch, burbly, popply, tinkling, susurring, more...

Types:
lapping, sloshing, gurgling, splashing, bubbling, churning, gushing, spouting, pouring, more...

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Similar:
swirl, whirl, whirlpool, gurge, eddy, purl stitch, burbly, popply, tinkling, susurring, more...

Types:
lapping, sloshing, gurgling, splashing, bubbling, churning, gushing, spouting, pouring, more...



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