Dictionary Entry
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.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To decorate with fringe or embroidery.
- 2noun
An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
- 3noun
An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance.
- 4intransitive 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.
- 5verb & noun
To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
- 6noun
A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
- 7noun
A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook.
- 8noun
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.
- 9noun
A tern.
- 10noun
a basic knitting stitch
- 11noun
gold or silver wire thread
- 12verb
make a murmuring sound
"the water was purling"
Synonyms
- 13verb
embroider with gold or silver thread
- 14verb
edge or border with gold or silver embroidery
- 15verb
knit with a purl stitch
- 16verb
flow in a circular current, of liquids
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