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Puer vs Pur - What's the difference?

puer | pur |

As nouns the difference between puer and pur

is that puer is canine faeces used as a lye in tanning while pur is dated form of nodot=yes lang=en (low murmuring sound as of a cat.

As a verb pur is

dated form of nodot=yes lang=en.

As an initialism PUR is

polyurethane.

puer

English

Noun

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  • (chiefly, historical) Canine faeces used as a lye in tanning.
  • * 1903 , Henry Richardson Proctor, The principles of leather manufacture , page 174:
    • The bacteria of fresh dog-dung were not found to possess a satisfactory puering effect, but those from dung with had been fermented a month (as in practice) have a result nearly equal to actual puer .
  • * 2009 , Tony Covington, Tanning Chemistry: The Science of Leather , page 166:
    • it was about 50 years before the use of puer was discontinued, at least in Europe.

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    pur

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (low murmuring sound as of a cat)
  • * 1895 , Jacob Mendes Da Costa, Medical diagnosis (page 294)
    • The first — called by Laennec, from its resemblance to the pur of a cat, the purring tremor — is nearly always indicative of a valvular lesion. The second is caused by the to-and-fro motion of a roughened pericardium.

    Verb

  • * John G. C. Brainard
    • And there the wild-cat purs amid her brood.
  • * 1840 , The Visitor: Or, Monthly Instructor (page 182)
    • It appears to me, past all doubt, that its [the goatsucker's] notes are formed by organic impulse, by the parts of its windpipe formed for sound, just as cats pur .
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