purling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of purl

adj

1. That purls; rippling, eddying.

   “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.”

   “"Thank Heaven," cried Henrietta, laughing, "you do not, even in fancy, turn me into a shepherdess, with sheep on one side, and a purling brook on the other."”

   “[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

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

   “the purlings of the stream”