What is "furled"

Usage examples of "furled".

They had reefed and furled in all weathers, sent sails down on the deck in half a gale and hoisted them up again, sent down yards for imaginary repairs and swayed them up again as black squalls drove down on them.

One party had no sooner clapped emergency tackles to the tiller as topmen furled the topsail and the great mainsail and foresail were trimmed to get the strain off the rudder, allowing Aitken to report to the Captain that the ship was under control again, than Ramage had ordered the ship to be hove-to, using the tiller tackles, and a cutter hoisted out to starboard, rowed round the ship carrying ten Marines, and recovered on the larboard side.

Working through the night with Aitken encouraging them, the men now had the maincourse bent on the yard and furled, and the maintopsail and topgallant were both neatly faked down in slings ready for hoisting.

All their sails had been furled, but the jibboom and bowsprit of one was still locked into the other.

The boat was broad-beamed and big-bellied and painted blue, with a stumpy mast forward, the sail loosely furled on a short boom.

Empty-handed and in bathrobe and pajamas, he appeared to be fully and impeccably dressed and carrying a tightly furled umbrella and a respectable newspaper.

He smiled cruelly, and the tightly furled man cried harder and burrowed into the blankets and covered up his head.

As nearly as I could gauge in the light, the boat was about thirty-five feet long, sloop-rigged, the sail now neatly furled on the boom, the jibsail not even out.

He furled the sail by remote and went on low-power assist to slow the Pearl and avoid oversailing the buoy.

The bronze dragon furled his great wings, and F'lar heard the warning claxon in the Hold's Great Tower.

For there, now that Ramoth's wings were furled, gleamed an egg of glowing gold among the mottled ones.

Startled, he looked beyond their heads to the harbor and growled to see that the ships he had seen off were back, sails furled and anchors cast overboard.

Just then more pods could be seen, leaping and diving, plunging and cavorting, all heading towards the ships which had furled their sails and seemed to be standing still.

When the wind was on our port beam, Soterio ordered the jibs furled, the fore course reefed and the spanker raised.

The _Vigilant_ was now rigged for a storm, all but her fore and main courses furled and those reefed close to their yards, straining alarmingly at their gaskets.