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Knitting vs Purling - What's the difference?

knitting | purling |

As verbs the difference between knitting and purling

is that knitting is while purling is .

As nouns the difference between knitting and purling

is that knitting is the action of the verb to knit ; the process of producing knitted material while purling is the motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound.

As an adjective purling is

that purls; rippling, eddying.

knitting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia knitting) (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to knit ; the process of producing knitted material.
    • I find knitting very relaxing.
  • Material that has been, or is being knitted.
    • She put down her knitting and went to answer the phone.

    Derived terms

    * stick to one's knitting

    purling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • the motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound
    • the purlings of the stream