furl
verb (used with object)
to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff.
furls
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present tense formof furl (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Her Bengali furls backward toward its village origins.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 28, 2016
As furls of smoke spread out on a screen above him, a voice intoned "This is the night of the demon" over thunderous bass.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 27, 2010
When blythe the blue e'ed dawnin' Steals saftly o'er the lawnin', And furls night's sable awnin', I love to think o' thee.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
But swift as sailor, by his trembling mast Warned of Circeian tempest, furls his sails, So swift Torquatus saw, and prompt to wage The war more closely, he withdrew his men Within a narrower wall.
From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan
One of the boys furls the mizzen royal.
From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
