purling

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English

Verb

purling

  1. present participle and gerund of purl

Adjective

purling (comparative more purling, superlative most purling)

  1. That purls; rippling, eddying.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.6:
      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.
    • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 44:
      "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."
    • 2018, Clay S. Jenkinson, Jefferson's Second American Revolution, in: The Jefferson Watch, December 18 2018
      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.

Noun

purling (plural purlings)

  1. The motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound.
    the purlings of the stream
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