purl² /pûrl/

1. To flow with a murmuring sound
2. To flow in eddies
3. To curl or swirl

1. A trickling brook (obsolete)
2. A movement or murmuring eg of a stream among stones
3. An eddy or ripple (also pirl)

purlˈing noun and adjective

• professor
• professorate
• professorates
• professoress
• professoresses
• professorial
• professorially
• professoriate
• professoriates
• professors
• professorship
• professorships
• proffer
• proffered
• profferer
• profferers
• proffering
• proffers
• proficience
• proficiences
• proficiencies
• proficiency
• proficient
• proficiently
• proficients