purler

== English == === Etymology 1 === From purl (“a fall”). ==== Noun ==== purler (plural purlers) (UK, colloquial) A headlong fall or tumble. 1869, “Stonehenge” (editor), The Coursing Calendar for the Autumn Season 1868, Containing Returns of All the Public Courses Run in Great Britain snd Ireland, 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. 1986, Judith Saxton (Katie Flynn), Family Feeling, 2012, 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? (UK, colloquial) A knockdown blow; a blow that causes a person to fall headlong. ===== Synonyms ===== (headlong fall or tumble): (incapacitating blow): king hit (Australian) ==== See also ==== come a cropper === Etymology 2 === Uncertain. ==== Alternative forms ==== pearler ==== Pronunciation ==== ==== Noun ==== purler (plural purlers) (Australia, colloquial) Something extremely good. === Anagrams === purrel