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Purling vs Curling - What's the difference?

purling | curling |

As verbs the difference between purling and curling

is that purling is present participle of lang=en while curling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between purling and curling

is that purling is the motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound while curling is the action or motion of something that curls.

As an adjective purling

is that purls; rippling, eddying.

As a proper noun Curling is

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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

    curling

    English

    (wikipedia curling)

    Noun

  • The action or motion of something that curls.
    • curlings of smoke
    a scornful curling of the lip
  • A winter sport where players aim and slide stones down a sheet of ice and attempt to get their color stones closest to the house (a circular target marked on the ice).

    • Coordinate terms

    * (l)

    Verb

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