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curling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curl \Curl\ (k[^u]rl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Curled (k[^u]rld); p. pr. & vb. n. Curling.] [Akin to D. krullen, Dan. kr["o]lle, dial. Sw. krulla to curl, crisp; possibly akin to E. crook. Cf. Curl, n., Cruller.]
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To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair.
But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid.
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To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body.
Of his tortuous train, Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve.
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To deck with, or as with, curls; to ornament.
Thicker than the snaky locks That curledMeg[ae]ra.
--Milton.Curling with metaphors a plain intention.
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To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
Seas would be pools without the brushing air To curl the waves.
--Dryden. (Hat Making) To shape (the brim) into a curve.
Curling \Curl"ing\, n.
The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.
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A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark.
Curling . . . is an amusement of the winter, and played on the ice, by sliding from one mark to another great stones of 40 to 70 pounds weight, of a hemispherical form, with an iron or wooden handle at top. The object of the player is to lay his stone as near to the mark as possible, to guard that of his partner, which has been well laid before, or to strike off that of his antagonist.
--Pennant (Tour in Scotland. 1772).Curling irons, Curling tong, an instrument for curling the hair; -- commonly heated when used. Called also curler[4].
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
game played with stones on ice, 1610s, from present participle of curl (v.). "The name appears to describe the motion given to the stone" [OED]. A description of a similar game is attested from Flanders c.1600.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The action or motion of something that curls. 2 A winter sport where players aim and slide stones down a sheet of ice and attempt to get their color stones closest to the house (a circular target marked on the ice). vb. (present participle of curl English)
WordNet
adj. having curls [syn: curled]
n. a game played on ice; curling stones (heavy stones with handles) are slid toward a target
Wikipedia
Curling is a team sport involving moving stones across ice.
Curling may also refer to:
- Curling (metalworking), a metalworking process that forms a curled edge on sheet metal
- Curling (surname)
- Curling, Newfoundland and Labrador, a subdivision of the Canadian city of Corner Brook
- Curling bridge, a type of bridge
- Curling iron, a type of hair iron used to curl hair
- Curling's ulcer, a stress ulcer associated with severe burns
- Curling (film), a movie by Denis Côté, Canada 2010
Curling is a sheet metal forming process used to form the edges into a hollow ring. Curling can be performed to eliminate sharp edges and increase the moment of inertia near the curled end. Other parts are curled to perform their primary function, such as door hinges.
Curling is a surname, and may refer to:
- Alvin Curling (born 1939), Canadian politician
- Dennis Curling, Welsh rugby union and rugby league player
- Henry Curling (1847–1910), British Army officer
- Rob Curling (born 1957), British television presenter and journalist
- Thomas Blizard Curling (1811–1888), British surgeon
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granite stones, also called rocks, across the ice curling sheet towards the house, a circular target marked on the ice. Each team has eight stones. The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a game; points are scored for the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each end, which is completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones. A game usually consists of eight or ten ends.
The curler can induce a curved path by causing the stone to slowly turn as it slides, and the path of the rock may be further influenced by two sweepers with brooms who accompany it as it slides down the sheet, using the brooms to alter the state of the ice in front of the stone. A great deal of strategy and teamwork go into choosing the ideal path and placement of a stone for each situation, and the skills of the curlers determine how close to the desired result the stone will achieve. This gives curling its nickname of " chess on ice".
Usage examples of "curling".
Much of the ejecta curtain was curling into orbit in what would become the smothering ashfall of days to come.
The Babinski reflex - the great toe pulling up instead of curling down - was a grave, grave sign that her cerebral cortex, the thinking part of her brain, was no longer influencing the movements of her body.
Kayak Bill, who had once seen a tidal wave on Bering Sea, pictured it advancing in the grey unnatural night from the far reaches of the ocean, growing larger and larger as it neared the shallows off Kon Klayu, and then, tossing its dancing crest to the sky in gigantic abandon, curling down from aloft in green-white, crushing splendor and flinging itself far over the beachline in its endeavor to encompass them all.
They turned away from the bodies curling up in the flames, from the bloody flesh blackening and cracking, and they vomited into the snow.
The vault door was open, and there in the moonlight stood Bluebeard, exactly as he was represented in the picture, in his yeomanry dress, his face frightfully pale, and his great blue beard curling over his chest, as awful as Mr.
With the bluewings curling up to the sky, it was an almost spiritual moment.
Ann and Nadia and Simon took rover Three and drove back down Chasma Borealis and around to the west, where one of the glaciers curling away from the cap thinned to a perfect rampway.
The largest chair in the room was a vast fan-backed affair with wide curling arms containing pockets for magazines and a tumbler, a relic of colonial glory designed for chotapegs and gracious tropical verandas.
Brandon ladled some into a metal mug, cinnamony steam curling from the rim.
Joelle gets him sprinting, a three-meter lateral burst as he avoids the first few sets of hands and the beefy curling lips and but is just about to get personally contacted and knocked out of his cleats by the Delaware strong safety flying in on a slant from way outside when the tiny .
It was quiet in the store, the street outside empty of traffic, the late afternoon heat curling the leaves on the pink coneflowers lining her walk.
Kalends of November, he consulted the chief pilot again and put the fleet snugly into harbor within the curling palm of the Cydonian peninsula, where it could not be seen from Lesbos.
I will be as good a housewife and dairywoman, stir about as briskly, and sing as merrily, as Peggy Curling.
It eyed the mage warily, curling back its lips and hissing as Eldrich approached.
By accident or by design, slender, curling threads of hair had escaped the loose chignon and gently brushed her forehead, her cheeks, and shimmered in the gaslighted room.