furl
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English
Etymology
Perhaps from Old French ferlier, modern French ferler.
Pronunciation
Verb
furl (third-person singular simple present furls, present participle furling, simple past and past participle furled)
- (transitive) To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag)
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 14, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 71:
- With the landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between billows; so at nightfall, the Nantucketer, out of sight of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 191:
- "'Oh yes, that's all very well, but we haven't done with it yet,' said the lad, 'we shall have it worse directly,' and he ordered them to furl every rag but the mizen."
Antonyms
Translations
to lower, roll up and secure something
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