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

• distances
• distance teaching
• distancing
• distant
• distant healing
• distantly
• distantness
• distantnesses
• distant-signal
• distant-signals
• distaste
• distasted
• distasteful
• distastefully
• distastefulness
• distastefulnesses
• distastes
• distasting
• distemper
• distemperate
• distemperature
• distemperatures
• distempered
• distempering
• distempers