Usually means: Knitting stitch opposite of knit.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. purl: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. purl, purl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. purl, purl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. purl: Collins English Dictionary
  5. purl: Vocabulary.com
  6. Purl, purl: Wordnik
  7. purl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. purl: Wiktionary
  9. purl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. purl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. purl: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Purl, purl: Dictionary.com
  13. purl (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. PURL, Purl (disambiguation), Purl (film), Purl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Purl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. purl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. purl: Rhymezone
  18. Purl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. purl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. PURL: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. purl: Free Dictionary
  22. purl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. purl: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Purl: World Wide Words

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. purl: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PURL: Acronym Finder
  2. purl: A Word A Day
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. purl, purl, purl: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. PURL: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. PURL: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See purled 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.

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