purler
Noun
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Noun
purler (plural purlers)
- (UK, colloquial) A headlong fall or tumble.
- He came a purler on the icy path.
- 1869, “Stonehenge” (editor), The Coursing Calendar for the Autumn Season 1868, Containing Returns of All the Public Courses Run in Great Britain snd Ireland, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=_-QNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA172&dq=%22purler%22|%22purlers%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TlzxT5TWM8SViAfT6NGNDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22purler%22|%22purlers%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 172],
- Dilston and Savernake: the latter led, and turned, but in trying to kill came down a purler, which completely knocked all the go out of him; Dilston took possession of the hare, and kept it, winning the course in hollow style.
- 1954, British Broadcasting Corporation, The Listener, Volume 51, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6rZAAQAAIAAJ&q=%22purler%22|%22purlers%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22purler%22|%22purlers%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TlzxT5TWM8SViAfT6NGNDQ&redir_esc=y page 67],
- Her French-speaking table in the dining-room is a riot of second-rate behaviour and dexterously aimed bread-pellets; the stairs outside her bedroom are relentlessly buttered and she comes purler after purler.
- 1986, Judith Saxton (Katie Flynn), Family Feeling, 2012, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VjTC83VtVsQC&pg=PT73&dq=%22purler%22|%22purlers%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Q3TxT5mfC-etiAeiyo2lDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22purler%22|%22purlers%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page],
- Yet he was very sure that he had tripped and gone a purler just as he was leaving the Other Place . . . had that made him gash his forehead, once he was back in the pit?
- 2003, Susan Hill, The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read, The Boy Who Taught The Beekeeper To Read: And Other Stories, 2011, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5WiLn3q-V2YC&pg=PT9&dq=%22purler%22|%22purlers%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TlzxT5TWM8SViAfT6NGNDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22purler%22|%22purlers%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false unnumbered page],
- ‘You could hold the ladder,’ Mart said, ‘see I don′t come a purler.’
- (UK, colloquial) A knockdown blow; a blow that causes a person to fall headlong.
- 1867, Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé), Under Two Flags, 2006, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Dx0kvu3O5OcC&pg=PA60&dq=%22purler%22|%22purlers%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rWjxT42SC4eOiAeBpeCjDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22purler%22|%22purlers%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 60],
- […] but, falling with a mighty crash, gave him a purler on the opposite side, and was within an inch of striking him dead with his hoof in frantic struggles to recover.
- 1867, Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé), Under Two Flags, 2006, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Dx0kvu3O5OcC&pg=PA60&dq=%22purler%22|%22purlers%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rWjxT42SC4eOiAeBpeCjDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22purler%22|%22purlers%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 60],
- (headlong fall or tumble)
- (incapacitating blow) king hit (Australian)
purler (plural purlers)
- (Australia, colloquial) Something extremely good.
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