different between purling vs purline

English

Verb

purling

1. present participle of purl

Adjective

purling (comparative more purling, superlative most purling)

1. 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.

   • 2018, Clay S. Jenkinson, Jefferson's Second American Revolution, in: The Jefferson Watch, December 18 2018

     [Thomas Jefferson] was up near the source of the River of America, near the Three Forks, while we are downstream from New Orleans in a broad, deep, incredibly powerful river that often feels more like a sewer than a purling mountain stream.

Noun

purling (plural purlings)

1. The motion of a small stream among obstructions; flowing with a murmuring sound.

   the purlings of the stream

English

Noun

purline (plural purlines)

1. Alternative form of purlin