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/fɜːl/ · verb
(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.
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.
"'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."
Use furl when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Furl means (transitive) To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag).
Common synonyms include roll up.
Possible antonyms include unfurl.
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.
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