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furl::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | roll up |
| Type of | change form, change shape, deform |
| Has types | gather in, reef, take in, brail, douse, bolt |
| Verb group | roll up, roll |
Examples of furl
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On seeing Mr Frederick's banner, Ms Morse marched up and ordered him to furl it.
From the economist.com
Furl makes it easy to export lists of tagged sites, for research purposes.
From the theatlantic.com
So the staging will furl and unfurl the sails to reveal scenes and hide theater surprises.
From the courier-journal.com
Two Siamese cats furl around the andirons of an unused fireplace.
From the latimes.com
Examples include digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, reddit, and furl.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Furl also does other things differently than delicious.
From the techcrunch.com
Furl does a good job of helping you manage your web browsing.
From the techcrunch.com
Viewing all of your furl links is much like delicious.
From the techcrunch.com
Furl also has a private option, however, and those links will not be viewable to anyone except you.
From the techcrunch.com
- Roll up: form into a cylinder by rolling; "Roll up the cloth"
- (furled) rolled up and secured; "furled sails bound securely to the spar"; "a furled flag"; "his rolled umbrella hanging on his arm"
- Furl (from File Uniform Resource Locators) was a free social bookmarking website that allowed members to store searchable copies of webpages and share them with others. Every member received 5 gigabytes of storage space. ...
- Furling refers to stowing or dousing a boat's sail by flaking (folding), packing (like stuffing a spinnaker into a turtle), roller furling or just lowering it onto the deck. ...
- To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag)
- (FURLED) (in Hosta) having leaves with edges or sides curled or coiled in to the midrib; e.g. H. 'Stetson'.
- (furled) to bind a sail against a mast
- To roll or wrap a sail around the mast or spar to which it is attached.
- To lower a sail. Sails are sometimes partially furled to reduce the amount of sail area in use without completely lowering the sail. This is usually known as reefing.
