different between rippling vs purling

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rippling

rippling (not comparable)

Moving in a chaotic, undulating fashion, as in a flow of water or a flag blowing in the wind.

rippling (plural ripplings)

purling

purling (comparative more purling, superlative most purling)

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.

purling (plural purlings)

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

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