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Surling vs Purling - What's the difference?

surling | purling |

As nouns the difference between surling and purling

is that surling is (obsolete) a sour, morose fellow while purling is the motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound.

As a verb purling is

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As an adjective purling is

that purls; rippling, eddying.

surling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A sour, morose fellow.
    • (Camden)
    (Webster 1913)

    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