purl
purl is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, verb & noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To decorate with fringe or embroidery. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To decorate with fringe or embroidery.
- 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.
- noun. An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance.
- intransitive verb. To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions.
- verb & noun. To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
- noun. A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
- noun. A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook.
- noun. Malt liquor, medicated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.
- noun. A tern.
- noun. a basic knitting stitch
- noun. gold or silver wire thread
- verb. make a murmuring sound
"the water was purling"
- verb. embroider with gold or silver thread
- verb. edge or border with gold or silver embroidery
- verb. knit with a purl stitch
- verb. flow in a circular current, of liquids
Synonyms
sough, eddy, swirl, whirl, whirlpool
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in purl:
Common word forms
purls, purled, purler, purling
Words from these letters
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