Crossword clues for curler
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curler \Curl"er\ (k[^u]rl"[~e]r), n.
One who, or that which, curls.
A player at the game called curling.
--Burns.A small cylindrical object sometimes having a clamping attachment, around which hair is wound so as to produce curls; as, she slept all night with a head full of curlers.
an electrical appliance with a handle and a metal rod-shaped tip which is heated and around which hair is wound, to produce curls in the hair; -- called also curling iron.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1748, agent noun from curl (v.). Related: Curlers.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair. 2 A sportsman who plays curling. 3 (lb en football) A pass or a shot of the ball which swerves.
WordNet
n. a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it; "a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight" [syn: hair curler, roller, crimper]
Wikipedia
Curler may refer to:
- a sportsperson who plays curling
- a curling iron
- a hair roller
Usage examples of "curler".
Rice stood in the corridor, her black hair in curlers, and she was absentmindedly crying.
In her purple chenille bathrobe and green hair curlers, she reminded Emily of some weird eggplant experiment gone awry.
Guided by the voice, she went upstairs and came face to face with a sharp-featured woman with her hair in curlers, swathed in a grubby overall.
There is the hairbrush on the dressing table, and the bag of curlers, the diary, and, oh, that photograph in the filigree frame.
How do I tell a fella like that about the childhood I spent dreaming of lash curlers, mascara, highlighters and toners?
Marge, her hair in a bag of curlers, stood truculently in a ponderous dressing gown.
It was full of the stuff that usually clutters bathrooms: hair dryers, hot curlers, deodorant, shampoo, styling gel.
But I think she is a nice doll, even when she flops about in the morning with curlers in her hair.
And years later, Alden's intended, Becky, had come downstairs with her hair in curlers and a mud mask on her face and washed and put away the breakfast dishes on the morning she married Alden, from her husband-to-He's grandparents' house, Becky's own parents having died so sadly, so early, of separate illnesses.
You know, the sweet compliant daughter who enters her homemade cookies in the county fair bake-off every year, and puts her hair in curlers at night so the ends will flip just the right way in the morning.
Lipsticks, eyebrow pencils, Chap Sticks, emery boards, new boxes of curlers .
He'd laugh occasionally as he tried to figure out something -an eyelash curler or a broken antique apple parer that Rune bought because she thought it was a medieval weapon.
She tossed the phone on the vanity, between an eyelash curler and a manicure file.
You can be standing on that corner wearing a potato sack, with your hair in curlers, and a fever sore on your lip, and that won't discourage the rapist.
Rochelle works as an old waitress and always has money in her purse, a roll of bills the size of a hair curler.