PURL


Meaning of PURL in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

It's a woolly doll for Pete's sake - knit one, purl one - I saw it.

Knitweave can be thought of as a stocking stitch fabric with the weaving yarn caught into it on the purl side.

Slip stitch is also a textured stitch where the purl side is the right side.

The evening cape illustrated in Figure 1 is straight piece of knitting, using 16 rows each of purl and plain stitches.

The plating feeder holds them so that one yarn is always on the purl side and one on the knit side.

This is simply because the second, or front, bed makes knit and purl knitting possible within the same row.

Tuck and slip are both textured stitches, where usually the purl side is the right side.

Usually the right side is the purl side, while on the knit side the weaving hardly shows at all.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.