Usually means: Knitted with continuous raised rows.
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  1. purled: Merriam-Webster
  2. purled: Collins English Dictionary
  3. purled: Vocabulary.com
  4. purled: Wordnik
  5. purled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. purled: Wiktionary
  7. Purled, purled: Dictionary.com
  8. Purled: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Purled: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. purled: FreeDictionary.org
  11. purled: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. purled: Encyclopedia

(Note: See purl as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (purl)

noun:  A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.
noun:  The edge of lace trimmed with loops.
noun:  An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
verb:  To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
verb:  (knitting) To use or create a purl stitch or stitches.
noun:  a heavy or headlong fall; an upset.
verb:  (archaic) To upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong.
verb:  (intransitive) To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
verb:  To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
noun:  A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
noun:  A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
noun:  (archaic) Ale or beer spiced with wormwood or other bitter herbs, regarded as a tonic.
noun:  (archaic) Hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.
noun:  (UK, dialect) A tern.
▸ Also see purl


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