单词 | purling |
释义 | purlingn.1ΚΠ 1545 Rates Custome House sig. cij Purlynge wyer the dossen pounde iiii.s. 1579 J. Jones Arte preseruing Bodie & Soule i. x. 21 The Persian, Spanish, or Italian working of silks, as spinning, twisting, weuing sowing, imbroydring, aresing, counterfeyting, drawing, rasing, purling, buttoning, &c. a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure i. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Qqqqq2v/2 If he live..to your years, shall he spend his time in pinning, painting, purling, and perfuming as you do? a1678 A. Marvell Misc. Poems (1681) 124 Skilful Looms which through the costly threed Of purling Ore, a shining wave do shed. 1858 Harper's Mag. Jan. 288/2 An illusion tulle, quadrilled with a very narrow ribbon to suit, and edged with a narrow purling, forms the plastron. 2. Knitting. The action of knitting in purl stitch. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > knitting > methods or styles of Shetland knitting1846 purling1861 flat-knitting1939 intarsia1957 1861 Amer. Agriculturist Jan. 21/1 When you put the thread round in knitting or purling, do it twice instead of once, which makes a long stitch. 1880 Plain Knitting, etc. 11 Purling or knitting backwards should be the next step, as this is necessary for the completion of muffatees and stocking heels. 1902 M. Barnes-Grundy Thames Camp 299 The knitting and purling may be made very easy. 1966 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram 29 Aug. b9/1 In purling, the yarn is wrapped from the front over the top of the needle. 2003 Libr. Jrnl. (Nexis) 15 Dec. 122 It covers in detail every aspect of knitting that could possibly interest a new knitter: casting on, knitting, purling, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). purlingn.2 The action of purl v.3; eddying, rippling; a swirling, murmuring stream of water or sound. ΚΠ 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A rising..a mounting, a purling, a billowing. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §230 A pipe a little moistned on the inside,..maketh a more solemn sound, than if the pipe were dry: but yet with a sweet degree of sibilation or purling. 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 17 Any accidental motion of the fluids, as we see in the wind ruffling up the water, and the purlings of Streams. 1750 M. Clancy Memoirs I. 133 The God surprized at the gushing of her Streams, complained that they bubbled too loud. Juno replied, that Custom would reconcile him to this Purling. 1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 33 Ye roll, in cudlin purlings to the sea. 1863 M. Oliphant Salem Chapel I. vi. 103 He..heard vaguely the polite purling of Masters's voice. 1891 M. Oliphant Jerusalem ii. ii. 258 The purling of the little river under the olive-trees. 1948 W. S. Maugham Catalina xxxiv. 227 Her laughter was..so musical that Domingo in his poetic way likened it to the purling of water in a mountain stream. 1973 M. L. Settle Prisons x. 143 Across the meadow the sound of men is like the purling of the weir. 2002 Independent (Nexis) 4 June 19 This proved yet another of those Pleasure versus Virtue allegories, with especially seductive Handelian purlings to introduce the beguiling Emma Kirkby as Pleasure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † purlingn.3 Obsolete. rare. The fact of being capsized or thrown headlong. ΚΠ 1863 E. Farmer Scrap Bk. (ed. 3) 91 With ‘purling’ and ‘pumping’ the field gets select. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2018). purlingadj.α. 1500s– purling. β. 1600s perling. That purls, as a rivulet or stream; eddying, rippling; murmuring. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [adjective] > in agitated manner roughc1390 popplingc1400 bullering1533 purlinga1586 brawling1730 chafing1865 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [adjective] > rippling pibling1573 purlinga1586 pipling1601 lapsinga1771 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella xv. 1 Euery purling spring Which from the ribs of old Parnassus flowes. 1619 M. Drayton Poems (new ed.) 235 With eu'ry little perling breath that blowes. 1655 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans (ed. 2) ii. 69 The fruitful flocks fill every Dale, And purling Corn doth cloath the Vale. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 230 The whisp'ring Zephyr, and the purling Rill. 1789 E. Hands Death of Amnon App. 97 She saw green hills, And purling rills, The fertile spot surround. 1835 W. A. Caruthers Cavaliers of Virginia II. iii. 45 The rippling waters of the purling stream mingled with the monotonous whistling of the evening breeze. 1867 C. M. Yonge Six Cushions xvi The pathetic purling flow of talk. 1928 ‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country ii. 17 The journey started across tussock land alive with purling streams. 1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill i. 27 There was enchantment in..the purling beck which disappeared into a limestone bed. 1993 J. Merrill Different Person iv. 47 He was..a young man of the Old World, whose blue sunbeam eye, purling Dutch voice, and friendly sketch of a bow..functioned by reflex. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.11545n.21598n.31863adj.a1586 |
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