purlin's Usage Examples:

Purlieu >>Tiled floor, standard wall finish with two 19thC windows on west and east; simple purlin and rafter roof.

The simple wagon roof of two bays is coved with decorated purlins, molded ribs and quatrefoil tracery.

purling streams, lush meadows and wooded hills, all as pleasant as can be.

There were purling streams, lush meadows and wooded hills, all as pleasant as can be.

Roof of rafters and chamfered purlins with one cambered tie beam.

The two transverse frames are apparently pairs of base crucks with tie beams supporting a crown post and collar purlin roof.

ridge purlin, all 19thC.

bays with two visible arch-braced collar trusses, chamfered, and plain purlins.

A gabled roof runs north to south with a large tie-beam against the north wall; molded purlins.

From these beams sloping struts carry the lower purlins.

purlins of roofs visible.

The old porch was removed and a new one designed using an oak purlin from the wagon roof in the nave.

Keep working in this manner, purling one row and increasing on the knit row, until you are almost out of yarn or until your piece is as big as you want.