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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
furl .
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Examples
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If the end of the line has tiny furls then your knots are probably coming untied.
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I would stand on the shore of the Mersey watching the ships drop below the horizon, throwing back furls of steam in languid farewells, and vow that when I was old enough I would go to see it all for myself.
My Indian summer 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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If the end of the line has tiny furls then your knots are probably coming untied.
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Carla andDelboth register her: maybe sixteen, punk, a disheveled Mohican growing out maroon, black everything¾leather, boots, pants, eyeliner¾except for a white satin scarf that wraps round her neck and furls down her back.
Castanets '84 Ginnah Howard 2010
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To be about furthering the species, sex has to involve the dying out of the present generation; as the next wave furls up behind, its energy rearing, the first wave crashes.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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To be about furthering the species, sex has to involve the dying out of the present generation; as the next wave furls up behind, its energy rearing, the first wave crashes.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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‘Now comes the storm,’ thought Darsie to himself, and began to collect his thoughts, as the cautious master of a vessel furls his sails and makes his ship snug when he discerns the approaching squall.
Redgauntlet 2008
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So I tell the nice gentleman what the nice lady on the phone had told me and his brow furls.
Michael Huffington: Why Does AT&T Need My Social Security Number to Connect My iPhone? 2008
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Its prose furls, disjunctively connects, refuses all manner of numbing faux realism, unconscious confession, myopic perspective, it provokes more than soothes.
Archive 2008-04-01 Lemon Hound 2008
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