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Purling vs Spurling - What's the difference?

purling | spurling |

As nouns the difference between purling and spurling

is that purling is the motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound while spurling is (obsolete|uk|dialect) a tern.

As a verb purling

is .

As an adjective purling

is that purls; rippling, eddying.

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

    spurling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A tern.
    • (Tusser)
    (Webster 1913)