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furling

furling is the present participle and gerund of furl.

Meaning of furl

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

Noun

furling (plural furlings)

  1. The act by which something is furled.
    Antonyms:
    unfurling

Antonyms of furling

Forms of furling

pluralfurlings

Words formed from furling

Phrases with furling

Questions about furling

What does furling mean?
Furling means the act by which something is furled.
What is furling the present participle and gerund of?
Furling is the present participle and gerund of furl.
What part of speech is furling?
Furling is a noun.
What is the plural of furling?
The plural of furling is furlings.

Words near furling in the dictionary

  1. furless
  2. furlessness
  3. furligig
  4. furlike
  5. furlined
  6. furling
  7. furling drum
  8. furling drums
  9. furlings
  10. furlong
  11. Furlonger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: furling (page history and authors); furl (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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