purl vs sie

purl

noun
  • a heavy or headlong fall; an upset. 

  • A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions. 

  • A tern. 

  • A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple. 

  • A particular stitch in knitting; an inversion of stitches giving the work a ribbed or waved appearance. 

  • The edge of lace trimmed with loops. 

  • An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band. 

verb
  • To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle. 

  • To use an inverted stitch producing ribbing etc. 

  • To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies. 

  • To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge 

sie

noun
  • A drop. 

pron
  • Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she 

verb
  • To strain, as milk; filter. 

  • To drop, as water; trickle. 

  • To fall, as in a swoon; faint. 

  • To sift. 

  • To sink; fall; drop. 

How often have the words purl and sie occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )