Burl vs Purl - What's the difference?
burl | purl |
A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner.
Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
A particular stitch in knitting; an inversion of stitches giving the work a ribbed or waved appearance.
The edge of lace trimmed with loops.
An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
(knitting) an inverted stitch producing ribbing etc
(archaic) To upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong.
To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
* Alexander Pope
To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
* Shakespeare
(UK, dialect) A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
* Drayton
(UK, dialect) A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
(archaic) Ale or beer spiced with wormwood or other bitter herbs, regarded as a tonic.
* The Spectator , number 88
(archaic) Hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.
* Addison
* Charles Dickens
As nouns the difference between burl and purl
is that burl is a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner while purl is a particular stitch in knitting; an inversion of stitches giving the work a ribbed or waved appearance or purl can be a heavy or headlong fall; an upset or purl can be (uk|dialect) a circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple or purl can be (archaic) ale or beer spiced with wormwood or other bitter herbs, regarded as a tonic or purl can be (uk|dialect) a tern.As verbs the difference between burl and purl
is that burl is to remove the knots in cloth while purl is to decorate with fringe or embroidered edge or purl can be (archaic) to upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong or purl can be to flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.burl
English
Alternative forms
* burr (UK)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*purl
English
Etymology 1
Etymology uncertain; apparently related to Scots and dialect pirl ("twist, ripple, whirl, spin"), and possibly to Older Scots pyrl ("thrust or poke at"). Compare Venetian pirlo , an embellishment where the woven threads are twisted together. May be unrelated to purfle, though the meanings are similar.Noun
(en noun)- A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched with purl and pearl.
Verb
(en verb)- Needlework purled with gold.
- Knit one, purl two.
Etymology 2
from (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- The huntsman was purled from his horse.
Etymology 3
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, / Louder and louder purl the falling rills.
- thin winding breath which purled up to the sky
Noun
(en noun)- Whose stream an easy breath doth seem to blow, / Which on the sparkling gravel runs in purles , / As though the waves had been of silver curls.
- the purl of a brook
Etymology 4
Possibly from the pearl-like appearance caused by bubbles on the surface of the liquid.Noun
(-)- A double mug of purle .
- Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite.
- Drinking hot purl , and smoking pipes.