Furl

Quick meaning: Furl is a verb meaning (transitive) To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag).

Meaning

(transitive) To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag).

Example Sentences

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."

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.

Word Forms

• furls
• furling
• furled

Synonyms for furl

Depending on context, synonyms include roll up.

Antonyms for furl

Common opposites include unfurl.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include roll up, sails, unfurl, refurl, fill, vail.

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