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Purging vs Purling - What's the difference?

purging | purling |

As verbs the difference between purging and purling

is that purging is while purling is .

As nouns the difference between purging and purling

is that purging is the act by which something is purged 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.

purging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is purged.
  • (medicine) vomiting
  • * 1849 , The Journal of Health and Disease (page 98)
    • He had violent pains in his belly, and purgings

    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