Definition of "purls" []

• Plural form of purl. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of purl. (verb)

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• "You can make corrugated ribbing in any configuration you might normally use for ribbing, but the difference is that the knit columns are one color and the purls are another."
• "These "purls" were occasioned either by very small fish passing through the meshes, or else by large ones who came up, and touching the net with their snout, had taken the alarm and beat a retreat back to the pools whence they had come."
• ""purls," when horses have "come down" with me out hunting; and on one occasion in China, when a horse which I mounted for the first time, reared and came over."