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Purlin vs Purling - What's the difference?

purlin | purling |

As nouns the difference between purlin and purling

is that purlin is a longitudinal structural member bridging two or more rafters of a roof while purling is the motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound.

As a verb purling is

present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective purling is

that purls; rippling, eddying.

purlin

English

Alternative forms

* purline

Noun

(en noun)
  • A longitudinal structural member two or more rafters of a roof.

    • Derived terms

    *common purlin *principal purlin *purlin plate *through purlin *butt purlin *clasped purlin *trenched through purlin *back through purlin *clasped through purlin *threaded butt purlin *tenoned butt purlin *staggared butt purlin

    Hyponyms

    *(longitudinal structural member of a roof) purlin plate, principal purlin, common purlin

    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