Purling vs Burling - What's the difference?
purling | burling |
That purls; rippling, eddying.
*1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, 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.
the motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound
As verbs the difference between purling and burling
is that purling is present participle of lang=en while burling is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective purling
is that purls; rippling, eddying.As a noun purling
is the motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound.purling
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- the purlings of the stream