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furl

UK/fɜːl//fɝl/

furl verb: to lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag).

Verb

furl (third-person singular simple present furls, present participle furling, simple past and past participle furled)

  1. (transitive) To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag)
    • 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.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
    • When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole.1866, Charles Dickens, The Signal-Man

furl meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

furl in Tamil

சுருட்டு, மடி, மடிப்புறு

furl in Malayalam

ചുരുട്ടിക്കെട്ടുക, ചിറകൊതുക്കുക, മടക്കിവയ്ക്കുക

furl in Kannada

ಮಡಿಸು, ಸುತ್ತಿಡು

Antonyms of furl

Forms of furl

third-person singular presentfurls
present participlefurling
past participlefurled
pastfurled

Origin of furl

Perhaps from Old French ferlier, modern French ferler.

Words formed from furl

Words that rhyme with furl

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Questions about furl

What does furl mean?
Furl means to lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag).
What is furl in Tamil?
Furl in Tamil is சுருட்டு, மடி, மடிப்புறு. See Furl meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is furl?
Furl is a verb.
How do you pronounce furl?
Furl is pronounced /fɜːl/ (UK).
What is the past tense of furl?
The past tense of furl is furled.

Words near furl in the dictionary

  1. furisodes
  2. furisome
  3. furkid
  4. furkids
  5. furkind
  6. furl
  7. furlable
  8. Furlan
  9. furlana
  10. furlanas
  11. Furlans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: furl (page history and authors); furl (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); furl (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); furl (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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