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querl

querl verb: to twirl; turn or wind around; coil.

Verb

querl (third-person singular simple present querls, present participle querling, simple past and past participle querled)

  1. (transitive) To twirl; turn or wind around; coil.
    • to querl a cord, thread, or rope

Noun

querl (plural querls)

  1. A twist; curl.

Forms of querl

Verb
third-person singular presentquerls
present participlequerling
past participlequerled
pastquerled
alternative formquirl
Noun
pluralquerls

Origin of querl

From a dialectal variant of twirl, possibly representing a blend of twirl + curl. Cognate with German querlen (“to twirl”).

Questions about querl

What does querl mean?
Querl means to twirl; turn or wind around; coil.
What part of speech is querl?
Querl can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of querl?
The past tense of querl is querled.

Words near querl in the dictionary

  1. querkens
  2. querking
  3. querkle
  4. querkles
  5. querks
  6. querl
  7. querled
  8. querling
  9. querls
  10. quermassintegrals
  11. quern

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Adapted from Wiktionary: querl (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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