Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To roll up and secure (a flag or sail, for example) to something else.
- intransitive verb To be or become rolled up.
- noun The act or an instance of rolling up.
- noun A single roll or a rolled section.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, and fasten by a gasket or cord; draw up or draw into close compass, as a flag.
- To ruffle.
- noun A roll of what is furled.
- noun The manner of furling (a sail), or the appearance presented when furled: as, a vessel is judged by the furl of the sails.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
lower , roll up andsecure (something, such as asail orflag )
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb form into a cylinder by rolling
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Yahoos trying it, Delicious does it the best, and there are wannabees in furl, wists, delirious, and many others.
Archive 2005-07-01 Ben Barren 2005
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Yahoos trying it, Delicious does it the best, and there are wannabees in furl, wists, delirious, and many others.
It ain't that Eazy(e) 2 taG the Net Ben Barren 2005
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And yeah, we put "furl" on the windows to keep the sunshine out too...big deal.
Dealing with Shirley Q. Liquor and more gay person of color 2007
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The geeky, stand-up reporter lets his brows furl together.
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As a volunteer sailor aboard a museum-quality replica of the Endeavour, I lived and worked like an eighteenth-century seaman: sleeping in a narrow hammock in the ship's hold alongside forty others, climbing the 127-foot main mast to furl sails in rolling seas, manning the helm in a hard blow.
An Interview with Tony Horowitz, author of Blue Latitudes 2010
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And put all the reefs into the working canvas before you furl down.
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They learned how to keep their feet on rolling decks, how to climb ratlines in a gale, how to furl and unfurl sail, how to hurl grapnels and board ships and fire blunderbusses.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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They learned how to keep their feet on rolling decks, how to climb ratlines in a gale, how to furl and unfurl sail, how to hurl grapnels and board ships and fire blunderbusses.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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It also includes the line "He furls his brow"; furl is a nautical term, the correct word is furrows.
Bill O'Reilly 'Killing Lincoln' Errors: Book Contains Plethora Of Factual Inaccuracies 2011
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"We'll furl, an 'let you heave to," the gangster proposed.
CHAPTER XLVI 2010
bilby commented on the word furl
"Johnny Bowden and I were both rowing in haste to get out where we could catch the breeze and put up the small sail which lay clumsily furled along the gunwale."
- Sarah Orne Jewett, 'Green Island'.
September 8, 2009
Louises commented on the word furl
Furling a large umbrella. ColdComfort Farm.
February 21, 2013