prill

Meanings

Verb

• to flow, spurt
• to produce pellets by forming a molten substance into droplets which solidify while falling
• To grow sour.
• To become tipsy.

Noun

• a rill, a small stream
• a spinning top
• a pellet, a granule, a small bead
• rich copper ore remaining after removal of low-grade material; a droplet of copper suspended in molten slag
• A nugget of virgin metal.
• The button of metal from an assay.
• The brill, a kind of flatfish.

Related

Similar words

• pelletize

Origin

• A variant of purl, 17th century.
• Unknown. OED mentions Cornish pryl ("sheep-droppings") as a likely loan from English.