purl stitch

1. 1.

   a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stich from the righthand side

   Synonymspurl

   Broaderknitting stitch

1. 1.

   make with purl stitches

   Broaderknit

   handicraft

Questions about purl stitch

What does purl stitch mean?

purl stitch means "a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stich from the righthand side". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for purl stitch?

Close synonyms include purl. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is purl stitch a common word?

purl stitch is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.