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When you make clothes from wool with two needles, you have two basic stitches. One is knit. The other is purl. A purl stitch is the knit stitch done from the other side: you bring the wool to the front of the work, put the right needle in towards you, wrap the wool, and pull a new loop through. What you get is a little horizontal bump, not a smooth V. Knitters use purl all the time. Knit one row and purl the next, and the smooth face of the fabric looks like lots of little V’s ( stitch). Knit one, purl one across the same row, and you get ribbing — the band at the bottom of a jumper. You can use it as a noun (a purl stitch) or a verb (to purl). It is ordinary craft talk, not and not slang. It is not the jewel pearl, though they sound the same.
上針、反針（編織；正針／下針才是 knit）
組成Origin unknown. It seems to sit with Scots and dialect pirl, “twist, ripple, whirl, spin,” and perhaps Older Scots pyrl, “thrust or poke at.” Venetan pirlo is a similar twisting of woven threads. It may be unrelated to purfle, even though the meanings sit close.
原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
purlnoun詞源 1/pɜːl/
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A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.
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The edge of lace trimmed with loops.
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An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
- A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched with purl and pearl.
purlverb詞源 1/pɜːl/
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To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
- Needlework purled with gold.
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businessknittingmanufacturingTo use or create a purl stitch or stitches.
- Knit one, purl two.
- Stockinette fabric is created by knitting the right-side rows and purling the wrong-side rows.
purlnoun詞源 2/pɜːl/
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a heavy or headlong fall; an upset.
purlverb詞源 2/pɜːl/
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archaicTo upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong.
- The huntsman was purled from his horse.
purlverb詞源 3/pɜːl/
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To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
- Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, / Louder and louder purl the falling rills.
- There is a water-break formed by a small terrace of rock in mid-stream, and purling with a hollow, delicious monotone—an island of pebbles is above, with here and there smaller ones near the "forks."
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To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
- thin winding breath which purled up to the sky
purlnoun詞源 3/pɜːl/
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dialectalA circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
- Caiſters ſiluer Lake, / […] / VVhoſe ſtreame an eaſie breath doth ſeeme to blovve; / VVhich on the ſparkling grauell runns in purles, / As though the vvaues had been of ſiluer curles.
- Whatsoever had a beginning, can also have an ending; and it shall die, unless it be daily watered with the purls flowing from the fountain of life, and refreshed with the dew of heaven, and the wells of God: […]
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dialectalA gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
- the purl of a brook
purlnoun詞源 4/pɜːl/
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archaicdialectalAle or beer spiced with wormwood or other bitter herbs, regarded as a tonic.
- A double mug of purle.
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archaicdialectalHot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.
- Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite.
- Drinking hot purl, and smoking pipes.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。