Crossword clues for furl
furl
- Curl up and tie
- Secure Old Glory
- Roll up
- Roll up, like a flag
- Roll up tightly
- Roll up (like a flag)
- Roll and bind
- Roll a flag
- Prepare for storage, as a sail
- Prepare for a poster tube
- Get ready to stow away on a sailboat?
- Gather into a roll, as a flag
- Gather and bind, as a sail
- Fold, as a flag
- Fold up, as a flag
- Do flag work
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Furl \Furl\ (f[^u]rl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Furled (f[^u]rld);
p. pr. & vb. n. Furling.] [Contr. fr. furdle, fr. fardel
bundle: cf. F. ferler to furl, OF. fardeler to pack. See
Furdle, Fardel, and cf. Farl.]
To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as
a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag,
close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket
or line.
--Totten.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, of uncertain origin, possibly from Middle French ferler "to furl," from Old French ferliier "chain, tie up, lock away," perhaps from fer "firm" (from Latin firmus; see firm (adj.)) + -lier "to bind" (from Latin ligare). Also said to be a shortening of earlier furdle "to furl or fold." Related: Furled; furling. As a noun from 1640s.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag)
WordNet
v. form into a cylinder by rolling; "Roll up the cloth" [syn: roll up]
Wikipedia
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. The site was founded by Mike Giles in 2003 and purchased by LookSmart in 2004. Diigo (a web annotation, social bookmarking & research tool website) bought it from LookSmart in exchange for equity.
Furling refers to stowing or dousing a boat's sail by flaking (folding), packing (like stuffing a spinnaker into a bag), or stowing it in part or whole using roller furling.
Furling is not synonymous with dousing (dropping) or reefing (reducing the exposed area of) a sail, but modern technologies such as roller furling are altering the term's traditional use.
Category:Sailing rigs and rigging
Usage examples of "furl".
We covered the six kilometers in ten minutes and turned off the saltway onto a paved ramp that led through a cluster of homes -- white stone this time, not adobe -- and then Alem and the other man furled the sail and pedaled the windcycle slowly along the cobblestone street that ran between the homes and the canal-river.
Maia and Brod stood up, together releasing the clamps holding the furled sail, and drew it to the clew outhaul.
Chrysom had built on the curving shore of Wolfe Sea was a great, shining wheel of seven towers circling the high black tower above which the Cygnet flew on a pennant furling and unfurling, by day and night.
Outside, too, lay the frigate, riding on the glassy surface of the sea, her sails furled, her yards squared, everything about her cared for and in its place, until she formed a faultless picture of nautical symmetry and naval propriety.
Sailors grabbed handfuls of the sail, furling it and cursing the breeze.
Clapping those together and furling them as far as he could, Farree took a deep breath and started into the tower.
Scattered among them, badly creased, corners furling, were a half-dozen old maps.
Furl Gett and Willom Travers found me stumbling through the trees, and gave me a ride home.
Mustard took up a position on the floor between her bare legs and lifted to his lips a small furled umbrella full of a substance that hodads and full hanks were not meant to know.
Blessing had got herself into the furled rigging of the lateen sail and shinnied halfway up the mast, clinging to a rope.
A cluster of ships lay anchored at the north end of the cove, sleek and dark against the silvery waters, and by the glint of radian draws and the odd slant of light sheaths furled and waiting for release, Walker recognized them as airships.
They scurried to obey, but the fire was spreading swiftly, eating into the stern and dancing along the gunwale, reaching up hungrily towards the furled sails on their outstretched yards.
He had been able to replace the mizzen yards, and furled new sails upon them.
All around him the ship was in turmoil as the crew rushed to get the sails furled and to bring the bows around, so that the Golden Bough faced into the racing storm.
Jim and I were sent aloft to the fore-topgallant sailyard to furl the sail.